Escape Characters

Posted on By David Kittell 
' for a single quote
" for a double quote
 for a backslash
\0 for a null character
a for an alert character
b for a backspace
f for a form feed
n for a new line
r for a carriage return
t for a horizontal tab
v for a vertical tab
uxxxx for a unicode character hex value (e.g. u0020)
x is the same as u, but you don't need leading zeroes (.g. x20)
Uxxxxxxxx for a unicode character hex value (longer form needed for generating surrogates)
Originally Posted on April 17, 2013
Last Updated on October 26, 2015
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