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What are all the escape characters?

I know some of the escape characters in Java, e.g.

\n : Newline
\r : Carriage return
\t : Tab
\\ : Backslash
...

Is there a complete list somewhere?

Solution

  • You can find the full list here.

    • \t Insert a tab in the text at this point.
    • \b Insert a backspace in the text at this point.
    • \n Insert a newline in the text at this point.
    • \r Insert a carriage return in the text at this point.
    • \f Insert a formfeed in the text at this point.
    • \s Insert a space in the text at this point.
    • \' Insert a single quote character in the text at this point.
    • \" Insert a double quote character in the text at this point.
    • \\ Insert a backslash character in the text at this point.