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Current docstring:

julia> using Dates

help?> Dates.format

...

  as a literal you can use the escape character backslash. The string
  "1996y01m" can be produced with the format "yyyy\ymm\m".

julia>
julia> using Dates

julia> "yyyy\ymm\m"
ERROR: ParseError:
# Error @ REPL[36]:1:6
"yyyy\ymm\m"
#    └┘ ── invalid escape sequence
Stacktrace:
 [1] top-level scope
   @ REPL:1

julia> Dates.format(Dates.now(), raw"yyyy\ymm\m")
"2024y11m"

julia> Dates.format(Dates.now(), "yyyy\\ymm\\m")  # Another way
"2024y11m"

@inkydragon inkydragon added the docs This change adds or pertains to documentation label Nov 26, 2024
@IanButterworth IanButterworth merged commit 60f0057 into JuliaLang:master Nov 28, 2024
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@inkydragon inkydragon deleted the cyhan/doc-Dates.format branch November 28, 2024 03:35
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[docstring] need to use raw string to backslash characters

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