All the escape characters and their corresponding meanings:
| Escape character |
Significance |
ASCII code value (decimal) |
| \a |
Bell (BEL) |
007 |
| \b |
BACKSPACE (BS) to move the current position to the previous column |
008 |
| \f |
Page Break (FF), moving the current position to the beginning of the next page |
012 |
| \ n |
Line Break (LF), move the current position to the beginning of the next line |
010 |
| \ r |
Enter (CR) to move the current position to the beginning of the bank |
013 |
| \ t |
Horizontal tab (HT) (jumps to the next tab position) |
009 |
| \v |
Vertical tabulation (VT) |
011 |
| \\ |
Represents a backslash character ' \ ' |
092 |
| \‘ |
Represents a single quotation mark (apostrophe) character |
039 |
| \" |
Represents a double-quote character |
034 |
\? |
Represents a question mark |
063 |
| / |
Null character (NULL) |
000 |
| \ooo |
Any character represented by a 1 to 3-bit octal number |
Three-bit octal |
| \xhh |
Any character represented by 1 to 2 hexadecimal digits |
Two-bit hexadecimal |
Note: Differentiate, Slash: "/" with backslash: "\", not interchangeable hereEscape of the Java escape character comparison point:. ==> u002e
Escape of Dollar sign: $ ==> u0024
The escape of the symbol of the exponent: ^ ==> u005e
Escape of opening curly brace: {==> u007b
Escape of the left parenthesis: [==> u005b
Escape of the Left parenthesis: (==> u0028
Escape of vertical bars: | ==> u007c
Escape of Right parenthesis:) ==> u0029
Escape of asterisks: * ==> u002a
Escape of the plus sign: + ==> u002b
Escape of question marks:? ==> u003f
Anti-slash escape: ==> u005c
Java Escape character