String Escape Codes
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\n
- Newline
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\r
- Carriage return
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\t
- Horizontal TAB
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\b
- Backspace
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\f
- Form feed
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\\
- Backslash
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\(
- Left parenthesis
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\)
- Right parenthesis
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\ddd
- The character code ddd, where ddd is in octal.
In addition to these basic codes, a backslash just before a newline
allows you to break a string across two lines without inserting a
newline into the string. That is, the string:
(This is a \
string \
that has no \
newlines)
is equivalent to the string: (This is a string that has no
newlines).