Sequence

Meaning

\a

Bell

\b

Backspace

\e

Escape character

\f

Formfeed Page Break

\n

Newline

\r

Carriage Return

\t

Horizontal Tab

\v

Vertical Tab

\\

Backslash

\'

Apostrophe or single quotation mark

\"

Double quotation mark

\?

Question mark

\nnn

Byte specified in octal

\xhh[hh..]

One or more bytes, specified in hexadecimal

\uhhhh

Single-byte Unicode code point, specified in hexadecimal

\Uhhhhhhhh

Double-byte Unicode code point, specified in hexadecimal