How to print out a backslash in LaTeX
I want to write a backslash character to a text file using LaTeX.

The first line of code below declares a variable 'file' which describes the file 'myfile.out'. The second line opens the file and the third one tries do write a backslash '\' to the file.

    \newwrite\file
    \immediate\openout\file=myfile.out
    \immediate\write\file{\}

The third line does not work because LaTeX get confused with the backslash, anyone knows how can I make it work? I tried a lot of things including `\textbackslash, $\backslash$ \char` ``\\`  etc and nothing seems to work.

Thanks a lot

How to print out a backslash in LaTeX
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I want to write a backslash character to a text file using LaTeX.

The first line of code below declares a variable 'file' which describes the file 'myfile.out'. The second line opens the file and the third one tries do write a backslash '\' to the file.

    \newwrite\file
    \immediate\openout\file=myfile.out
    \immediate\write\file{\}

The third line does not work because LaTeX get confused with the backslash, anyone knows how can I make it work? I tried a lot of things including `\textbackslash, $\backslash$ \char` ``\\`  etc and nothing seems to work.

Thanks a lot
