PLSESC(3plplot)

💅 PLSESC — set the escape character for text strings (yes bestie, it's a 3plplot moment)

Okay so real talk, this page is from the PLplot API and it's all about plsesc. Let's get into it 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

plsesc(esc)

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

So plsesc sets the escape character for text strings. That's the whole vibe. ✨

Now, here's the tea: from C — and this is different from Fortran, so if you're a Fortran bestie go look at plsescfortran(3plplot) instead — you pass esc as a character. 💖

But not any character, no ma'am. Only selected characters are allowed, and honestly that's a protective move so you don't shoot yourself in the foot 🙈 (for example, a \ isn't allowed since it conflicts with C's use of backslash as a character escape — lowkey makes sense, no cap). So here are the allowed escape characters and their corresponding decimal ASCII values, iconic list incoming:

• !, ASCII 33
• #, ASCII 35
• $, ASCII 36
• %, ASCII 37
• &, ASCII 38
• *, ASCII 42
• @, ASCII 64
• ^, ASCII 94
• ~, ASCII 126

Redacted form: General: plsesc(esc)

Also fun fact: this function is used in example 29. Slay. 🔥

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• esc (char, input) — the escape character. That's it, that's the whole argument. 💜

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

Many developers (who are credited at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/credits.php) have contributed to PLplot over its long history. Fr fr, a whole squad. 🫶

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

PLplot documentation at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/documentation.php — go read it, iykyk. ⭐

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And that's the whole manual page bestie, go set that escape char and be the main character of your text strings 💅✨

kisses from the PLplot API, August 2026 edition — PLSESC(3plplot), periodt 🦋