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COM1100 Winter2000 Yuhong Yin
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Escape Sequence
nWhen a backslash(\) is used
directly in front of a select group
of characters, the backslash tells the computer
to escape from the way these characters
would normally be interpreted.
nFor this reason, the combination of a backslash and these specific
characters are called escape sequence.
nWe have already encountered an example
nNew line escape sequence: \n