---
title: escapeCharacter
framework: tabulardata
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: tabulardata/csvreadingoptions/escapecharacter
---

# escapeCharacter

The character that precedes other characters, such as quotation marks, so that the parser interprets them as literal characters instead of special ones.

## Declaration

```swift
var escapeCharacter: Character { get }
```

## Discussion

Discussion Defaults to backslash(\).