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Escape Characters in Strings

Esacpe Character

Meaning

\\

backslash

\'

single quote

\"

double quote

\a

bell

\b

backspace

\f

form feed

\n

newline

\r

carriage return

\t

(horizontal) tab

\v

vertical tab

\N{id}

Unicode dbase id

\uhhhh

Unicode 16-bit hex

\Uhhhhhhhh

Unicode 32-bit hex

\xhh

Hex digit hh

\ooo

octal value

\0

null character