| Sequence | Meaning |
| \a | Beeps the speaker |
| \b | Backspace (moves the cursor back, no erase) |
| \f | Form feed (ejects printer page; may clear the screen on some computers) |
| \n | Newline, like pressing the Enter key |
| \r | Carriage return (moves the cursor to the beginning of the line) |
| \t | Tab |
| \v | Vertical tab (moves the cursor down a line) |
| \\ | The backslash character |
| \' | The apostrophe |
| \" | The double-quote character |
| \? | The question mark |
| \0 | The "null" byte (that's 0, not the letter O) |
| \Onn | A character value in octal (base 8) |
| \xnnn | A character value in hexadecimal (base 16) |
