问这些特殊字符在Java中是什么意思？

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public static String quote(String s) {
    int slashEIndex = s.indexOf("\\E");        // What does this mean. Is this a special char in java. if so what does this do.
    if (slashEIndex == -1)
        return "\\Q" + s + "\\E";          

    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(s.length() * 2);
    sb.append("\\Q");
    slashEIndex = 0;
    int current = 0;
    while ((slashEIndex = s.indexOf("\\E", current)) != -1) {
        sb.append(s.substring(current, slashEIndex));
        current = slashEIndex + 2;
        sb.append("\\E\\\\E\\Q");
    }
    sb.append(s.substring(current, s.length()));
    sb.append("\\E");
    return sb.toString();
}