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title: Escape Sequences in Java
date: 2017-08-28T17:12:00+00:00
author: Brandon Rozek
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Sometimes you want to format your outputs. This is a quick cheatsheet containing the differerent escape sequences



| Character    | Escape Sequence |
| ------------ | --------------- |
| Newline      | \n              |
| Tab          | \t              |
| Backspace    | \b              |
| Double Quote | \”        |
| Single Quote | \’        |
| Backslash    | \\              |