Special Character Classes

\\

General Escape

\n

New line or line feed

\r

Carriage return (used to reset a device's position to the beginning of a line of text)

\t

Tab

\0

Null character

\xHH

Hexademical digit HH

\oOOO

Octal digit OOO

[\b]

Backspace (yes it's inside brackets)

\f

Form feed (next page)

\v

Vertical tab

\Q...\E

Remove special meaning from a sequence of characters