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

 

<table class="tg">
  <tr>
    <th class="tg-yw4l">
      Character
    </th>
    
    <th class="tg-yw4l">
      Escape Sequence
    </th>
  </tr>
  
  <tr>
    <td class="tg-yw4l">
      Newline
    </td>
    
    <td class="tg-yw4l">
      \n
    </td>
  </tr>
  
  <tr>
    <td class="tg-yw4l">
      Tab
    </td>
    
    <td class="tg-yw4l">
      \t
    </td>
  </tr>
  
  <tr>
    <td class="tg-yw4l">
      Backspace
    </td>
    
    <td class="tg-yw4l">
      \b
    </td>
  </tr>
  
  <tr>
    <td class="tg-yw4l">
      Double Quote           
    </td>
    
    <td class="tg-yw4l">
      \&#8221;
    </td>
  </tr>
  
  <tr>
    <td class="tg-yw4l">
      Single Quote
    </td>
    
    <td class="tg-yw4l">
      \&#8217;
    </td>
  </tr>
  
  <tr>
    <td class="tg-yw4l">
      Backslash
    </td>
    
    <td class="tg-yw4l">
      \\
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>