Escape Sequences An escape sequence tells the compiler to use an alternative interpretation of the character(s) following the escape character. In JS++, the escape character is the backslash (\). When the compiler encounters a backslash inside a string or character literal, it knows the characters following the backslash are "special." In order to use single quotes inside a string wrapped by single quotes, we need to "escape" the single quote character used inside the string. Likewise, in order to use double quotes inside a string wrapped by double quotes, we need to "escape" the double quote character used inside the string. The escape sequence for a single quote is a backslash followed by a single quote character (\'), and the escape sequence for double quotes is a backslash followed by a double quote character (\"). Escape Sequence Description \'Single quote \"Double quote \`Grave accent \\Backslash \/Forward slash \nNew line \rCarriage return \tTab \bBackspace \fForm Feed \vVertical Tab \0Null character \xNNLatin-1 character (replace NN) \uNNNNUnicode codepoint (replace NNNN) See Also String Literals Share HTML | BBCode | Direct Link
