How to use escape characters in the C language?

In the C language, escape characters are used to represent special characters and are denoted by a backslash (\). Here are some commonly used escape characters and their usage:

  1. \n: indicates a newline character
    Example: printf(“Hello\nWorld”);
  2. \t is used to represent a tab space.
    For example: printf(“Name\tAge”);
  3. \r: Represents a carriage return character.
    For example: printf(“Hello\rWorld”);
  4. \b: represents the backspace character
    For example: printf(“Hello\bWorld”);
  5. \\: represents a backslash
    For example: printf(“C:\Program Files”);
  6. ‘ : indicates an apostrophe
    example: printf(“It’s raining”);
  7. Colon represents quotation marks, for example: printf(“She said, “Hello””);
  8. 0: Denotes a null character.
    For example: char str[] = “Hello\0World”;
  9. \xhh: Represents the character with ASCII code hh (in hexadecimal).
    For example: printf(“\x48\x65\x6C\x6C\x6F”); // outputs “Hello”

The above explains how to use some commonly used escape characters, you can choose the appropriate escape character to represent special characters based on the actual situation.

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