List of string blackslash characters

[uber1337]

Wasn't quite sure why I was seeing so many "/n"'s in programs so I looked it up and I found a list of all the backslash characters that can be used in strings and I thought I would share.


ESCAPE

MEANING

\newline

Ignored (continuation)

\\

Backslash (keeps a \)

\'

Single quote (keeps ')

\"

Double quote (keeps ")

\a

Bell

\b

Backspace

\f

Formfeed

\n

Newline (linefeed)

\r

Carriage return

\t

Horizontal tab

\v

Vertical tab

\N{id}

Unicode database ID

\uhhhh

Unicode 16-bit hex

\Uhhhh...

Unicode 32-bit hex

\xhh

Hex digits value

\ooo

Octal digits value

\0

Null (doesn’t end string)

\other

Not an escape (kept)