Java For Dummies Quick Reference

Escape Sequences

String and character literals can use special escape sequences to represent special characters or symbols.

Escape Sequence	Explanation
\b	Backspace
\t	Horizontal tab
\n	New line
\f	Form feed
\r	Carriage return
\”	Double quote
\’	Single quote
\\	Backslash

For example, here is a statement that displays two lines of text on the console:

System.out.println(“Hello\nWorld!”);

In this example, a new line character (\n) is inserted between the words Hello and World!. The resulting output will look like this:

Hello

World!