---
title: usesEscaping
framework: tabulardata
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: tabulardata/csvreadingoptions/usesescaping
---

# usesEscaping

A Boolean value that indicates whether to enable escaping.

## Declaration

```swift
var usesEscaping: Bool
```

## Discussion

Discussion When true, you can escape special characters, such as the field delimiter, by prefixing them with the escape character, which is the backslash (\) by default. Defaults to false.