Escape sequences express characters that cannot be expressed or interpreted literally. - CSharp Language Basics

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Introduction

An escape sequence is a backslash followed by a character with a special meaning.

Escape sequence characters

Char	Meaning	Value
\'	Single quote	0x0027
\"	Double quote	0x0022
\\	Backslash	0x005C
\0	Null	0x0000
\a	Alert	0x0007
\b	Backspace	0x0008
\f	Form feed	0x000C
\n	New line	0x000A
\r	Carriage return	0x000D
\t	Horizontal tab	0x0009
\v	Vertical tab	0x000B

The \u (or \x) escape sequence lets you specify any Unicode character via its four-digit hexadecimal code:

Demo Code

using System;//from  w w  w  .ja v  a  2  s  . co m
class Test
{
   static void Main(){
      char newLine = '\n';
      char backSlash = '\\';
      Console.WriteLine (backSlash);
      char copyrightSymbol = '\u00A9';
      char omegaSymbol     = '\u03A9';
      newLine         = '\u000A';
   }
}

Escape sequences express characters that cannot be expressed or interpreted literally. - CSharp Language Basics

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