Non-printable characters

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There are a number of very useful nonprinting characters that must be used occasionally. The following table shows the escape sequences used to represent these nonprinting characters:

character	meaning
\cx	Matches the control character indicated by x . For example, \cm matches a control-m or carriage return character. The value of x must be one-a-Z or a-Z. Otherwise, c is treated as a literal ' C ' character.
\f	Matches a page feed character. Equivalent to \x0c and \CL.
\ n	Matches a line feed character. Equivalent to \x0a and \CJ.
\ r	Matches a carriage return character. Equivalent to \x0d and \cm.
\s	Matches any white space character, including spaces, tabs, page breaks, and so on. equivalent to [\f\n\r\t\v].
\s	Matches any non-white-space character. equivalent to [^ \f\n\r\t\v].
\ t	Matches a tab character. Equivalent to \x09 and \ci.
\v	Matches a vertical tab. Equivalent to \x0b and \ck.