Two or more characters that often
begin with an escape character that tells the
computer or software program to perform a function or command.
Below is a listing of some of the commonly used and available
escape sequences used in programming languages and some text
editors.
Below is an example of how an escape sequence appears to a
computer and then how it is displayed to the user.
Hello\nThis is an example of\nescape sequences.
The above example with escape sequences would display the below
text.
Hello
This is an example of
escape sequences.
Also see: Escape,
Programming definitions,
Regex
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