Escape sequence | Combination of characters

Definition:

The escape sequence are the combination of special characters which is used for format the output result. These are only used to format our output result not input.




The general syntax of apply the escape sequence is :

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

void main () {

cout<<"\t \t .....Ali Haider's program....."<<endl<<endl<<endl;

cout<<"Thank you for check my program. "<<endl<<endl<<endl;

 

}

  (Here \t is used for  Tab)

These are some of the escape sequence of C++ as under :

Escape sequence	Description	Representation
\'	single quote	byte 0x27 in ASCII encoding
\"	double quote	byte 0x22 in ASCII encoding
\?	question mark	byte 0x3f in ASCII encoding
\\	backslash	byte 0x5c in ASCII encoding
\a	audible bell	byte 0x07 in ASCII encoding
\b	backspace	byte 0x08 in ASCII encoding
\f	form feed - new page	byte 0x0c in ASCII encoding
\n	line feed - new line	byte 0x0a in ASCII encoding
\r	carriage return	byte 0x0d in ASCII encoding
\t	horizontal tab	byte 0x09 in ASCII encoding
\v	vertical tab	byte 0x0b in ASCII encoding
\nnn	arbitrary octal value	byte nnn
\xnn	arbitrary hexadecimal value	byte nn
\unnnn	arbitrary Unicode value. May result in several characters.	code point U+nnnn
\Unnnnnnnn	arbitrary Unicode value. May result in several characters.	code point U+nnnnnnnn