C escape sequence

Some characters newline, backspace, tab can’t be display like other characters or string. so there is c supports the combination of backslash (\) . These all character combinations are called escape sequences or known as escape sequences. And these represents by two characters. so the first character is “\” and the second character is from the C character set. here in the below some Escape sequence in C characters are given below-

Escape sequence	Meaning	ASCII value	Purpose
\b	backspace	008	Moves the cursor to the previous position of the current line.
\r	carriage return	013	moves the cursor to the beginning of the current line
\a	alert	007	produce a audio
\f	form feed	012	moves the cursor to the initial position to the next page
\n	new line	010	in this move the cursor to the beginning of the next line
%0	Null character	000	used for termination of the character string
v	verticle tab	011	moves the cursor to next verticle position
\t	Horizontal tab	009	moves the cursor to next horizontal position
\\	backslash	092	print the character with backslash (\)

Let us take example to understand escape sequence

#include<stdio.h> int main() { int marks; printf("\t MY NAME IS NITISH SARASWAT"); printf("\n IAM FROM INDIA"); return 0; }

horizontal tab, blank, vertical tab, newline, ,form feed, carriage return are know as whitespace in c language

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