<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article includes a list of references, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations . Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations . (September 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> Escape sequences are used in the programming languages C and C++, and also in many more languages (with some variations) like Java and C#. An escape sequence is a sequence of characters that does not represent itself when used inside a character or string literal, but is translated into another character or a sequence of characters that may be difficult or impossible to represent directly . </P> <P> In C, all escape sequences consist of two or more characters, the first of which is the backslash, \ (called the "Escape character"); the remaining characters determine the interpretation of the escape sequence . For example, \ n is an escape sequence that denotes a newline character . The remainder of this article focuses on C; other programming languages are likely to have different syntax and semantics . </P> <P> Suppose we want to print out Hello, on one line, followed by world! on the next line . One could attempt to represent the string to be printed as a single literal as follows: </P>

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