Escaped Sequences

The following table lists the backslashed representations of characters that you can use in regular expressions:

Code

Matches

\a

Alarm (beep)

\n

Newline

\r

Carriage return

\t

Tab

\f

Formfeed

\e

Escape

\038

Any octal ASCII value

\x7f

Any hexadecimal ASCII value

\x{263a}

A wide hexadecimal value

\c x

Control-x

\N{ name }

A named character

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