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Back quote

Also known as an acute, grave, grave accent, left quote, open quote, or a push, the back quote or backquote is a punctuation mark ( ` ) found on the same computer keyboard key as the tilde. Below is an example of a Perl syntax that uses back quotes to execute a system command and loads it into a files array.

@files = `dir /b c:\windows\temp`;

Although not as common as the above alternative meaning this mark is also sometimes referred to as a back glitch, back prime, back spark, back tick, birk, blugle, quasiquote, and unapostrophe.

  • An additional listing of computer keyboard keys can be found by clicking here.

Also see: Quote, Keyboard definitions, Single quote

 

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