Escape Characters
In the interactive story example, you saw a JavaScript escape character in action—the \ ", which in a string represents a double quote. Escape characters are used in strings to do the following:
Prevent certain characters from causing errors
Add formatting (such as carriage returns) to strings
Table 5.1 lists the available escape characters.
Sequence | Name |
---|---|
\b | Backspace |
\t | Horizontal tab |
\f | Form feed |
\n | New line (line feed) |
\r | Carriage return |
\" | Double quote |
\' | Single quote |
\\ | Backslash |
These can be placed anywhere in the string and need no whitespace before or after them.
Here are some examples of escape characters in action:
Carriage return
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