Escape sequences in C

What are escape sequence characters in C?

Escape sequences are used to format the data.

It is the sequence of characters.

It starts with symbol ‘\'(backslash).

Ex: '\n' means newline.

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List of escape sequences in C

Escape sequence	Meaning
\a	Beep
\b	Backspace
\f	Form feed
\n	Newline
\r	Carriage return
\t	Tab
\v	Vertical Tab
\\	Backslash
\'	Single Quote
\"	Double Quote
\?	Question Mark
\nnn	Octal number
\xhh	Hexadecimal number
\0	Null

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Example program

#include<stdio.h>
int main()
{
  printf("Hi\tall \n you People are learning \n \"C \" language \n");
  return 0;
}

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