Do you have to escape a forward slash when using mod_rewrite?

Question

With regards to the forward slash \"/\" when giving a regex to RewriteRule or RewriteCond, or anything else related to .htaccess in particular, is there a need to escape the

Answer 1

No, you do not have to escape slashes. Forward slashes don't have any special meaning in regular expressions.

The one common character that has bitten me in the past is ? in query strings. That one you do have to escape.