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What is escape sequence?
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AnĀ escape sequence is aĀ sequenceĀ of characters that does not represent itself when used inside aĀ characterĀ orĀ stringĀ literal, but is translated into anotherĀ characterĀ or aĀ sequenceĀ of characters that may be difficult or impossible to represent directly.
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its when a certain character escape their fate, and become something else.
like n. "n" is just n, simple ordinary n. once you give them the sacred sword of backslash, n can escape its fate, and found a new life as a newline character. look at it proudly holding the sword as newline character "\n".
ok, enough of a tale of n for now. and see what the other say.
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An escape sequence is nothing but a special character which is preceded by a backslash '\'.
This is understood by the compiler at compilation time and it assigns the special character it's function.