Escape Sequences in Java

Objectives :

• What are the escape sequences in Java?
• What are the escape characters in Java?

Generally we enter all the characters directly. The escape sequences are used for those characters which cannot be entered directly.

Sequence	Purpose
\n	New Line (i.e. Line feed)
\b	Backspace
\t	Tab
\r	Carriage return
\f	Form Feed
\\	Backslash
\’	Single quote
\”	Double quote
\ddd	Octal Characters (i.e. ddd)
\uxxxx	Hexadecimal Unicode Characters (i.e. xxxx)
Escape Sequences in Java