Use of Backslashes in MaxL

Ignored unless preceded by another backslash (the escape character). Must use single or double quotation marks around the token containing the two backslashes.

create application 'finance\\budget';

Result: Application finance\budget is created.

Example (Windows):

  export database sample.basic using report_file
  'EssbaseServer\\App\\Sample\\Basic\\asym.rep'
  to data_file 'c:\\home\\month2.rpt';

Result: The Windows file paths are interpreted correctly as EssbaseServer\App\Sample\Basic\asym.rep and c:\home\month2.rpt.