


PLSESC(3)                   PLplot API                  PLSESC(3)


NAME
       plsesc - Set the escape character for text strings

SYNOPSIS
       plsesc(esc)

DESCRIPTION
       Set the escape character for text strings.  From C (in contrast to For-
       tran 77, see plsescfortran77(3)) you pass  esc  as  a  character.  Only
       selected  characters are allowed to prevent the user from shooting him-
       self in the foot (For example, a  isn't allowed since it conflicts with
       C's  use  of  backslash  as  a character escape).  Here are the allowed
       escape characters and their  corresponding  decimal  ASCII  values:  !,
       ASCII 33

       #, ASCII 35

       $, ASCII 36

       %, ASCII 37

       &, ASCII 38

       *, ASCII 42

       @, ASCII 64

       ^, ASCII 94

       ~, ASCII 126



       Redacted form:  General: plsesc(esc) Perl/PDL: Not available?


       This function is not used in any examples.

ARGUMENTS
       esc (char, input)
              Escape character.


AUTHORS
       Geoffrey  Furnish  and  Maurice LeBrun wrote and maintain PLplot.  This
       man page was automatically generated from the  DocBook  source  of  the
       PLplot   documentation,   maintained   by  Alan  W.  Irwin  and  Rafael
       Laboissiere.

SEE ALSO
       PLplot documentation at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/resources.






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