Why are there two slashes - forward and backward?

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Published on 2010-06-17T05:48:38Z Indexed on 2010/06/17 6:03 UTC
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I'm totally confused which one to use and when, first thing I do when something goes wrong in code with a slash is replace the one with other so my test cases double with one for / and one for \ .Help me to get the logic behind slashes.

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