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<h3 class="section">5.1 Escape Sequences in String Constants</h3>
<a name="index-escape-sequence-notation"></a>
<p>In double-quoted strings, the backslash character is used to introduce
<em>escape sequences</em> that represent other characters.  For example,
&lsquo;<samp>\n</samp>&rsquo; embeds a newline character in a double-quoted string and
&lsquo;<samp>\&quot;</samp>&rsquo; embeds a double quote character.  In single-quoted strings, backslash
is not a special character.  Here is an example showing the difference:
</p>
<div class="example">
<pre class="example">toascii (&quot;\n&quot;)
    &rArr; 10
toascii ('\n')
    &rArr; [ 92 110 ]
</pre></div>

<p>Here is a table of all the escape sequences used in Octave (within
double quoted strings).  They are the same as those used in the C
programming language.
</p>
<dl compact="compact">
<dt><code>\\</code></dt>
<dd><p>Represents a literal backslash, &lsquo;<samp>\</samp>&rsquo;.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>\&quot;</code></dt>
<dd><p>Represents a literal double-quote character, &lsquo;<samp>&quot;</samp>&rsquo;.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>\'</code></dt>
<dd><p>Represents a literal single-quote character, &lsquo;<samp>'</samp>&rsquo;.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>\0</code></dt>
<dd><p>Represents the null character, control-@, ASCII code 0.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>\a</code></dt>
<dd><p>Represents the &ldquo;alert&rdquo; character, control-g, ASCII code 7.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>\b</code></dt>
<dd><p>Represents a backspace, control-h, ASCII code 8.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>\f</code></dt>
<dd><p>Represents a formfeed, control-l, ASCII code 12.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>\n</code></dt>
<dd><p>Represents a newline, control-j, ASCII code 10.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>\r</code></dt>
<dd><p>Represents a carriage return, control-m, ASCII code 13.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>\t</code></dt>
<dd><p>Represents a horizontal tab, control-i, ASCII code 9.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>\v</code></dt>
<dd><p>Represents a vertical tab, control-k, ASCII code 11.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>\<var>nnn</var></code></dt>
<dd><p>Represents the octal value <var>nnn</var>, where <var>nnn</var> are one to three
digits between 0 and 7.  For example, the code for the ASCII ESC
(escape) character is &lsquo;<samp>\033</samp>&rsquo;.
</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>\x<var>hh</var>&hellip;</code></dt>
<dd><p>Represents the hexadecimal value <var>hh</var>, where <var>hh</var> are hexadecimal
digits (&lsquo;<samp>0</samp>&rsquo; through &lsquo;<samp>9</samp>&rsquo; and either &lsquo;<samp>A</samp>&rsquo; through &lsquo;<samp>F</samp>&rsquo; or
&lsquo;<samp>a</samp>&rsquo; through &lsquo;<samp>f</samp>&rsquo;).  Like the same construct in <small>ANSI</small> C,
the escape sequence continues until the first non-hexadecimal digit is seen.
However, using more than two hexadecimal digits produces undefined results.
</p></dd>
</dl>

<p>In a single-quoted string there is only one escape sequence: you may insert a
single quote character using two single quote characters in succession.  For
example,
</p>
<div class="example">
<pre class="example">'I can''t escape'
    &rArr; I can't escape
</pre></div>

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<dt><a name="index-is_005fdq_005fstring"></a>: <em></em> <strong>is_dq_string</strong> <em>(<var>x</var>)</em></dt>
<dd><p>Return true if <var>x</var> is a double-quoted character string.
</p>
<p><strong>See also:</strong> <a href="#XREFis_005fsq_005fstring">is_sq_string</a>, <a href="Character-Arrays.html#XREFischar">ischar</a>.
</p></dd></dl>


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<dt><a name="index-is_005fsq_005fstring"></a>: <em></em> <strong>is_sq_string</strong> <em>(<var>x</var>)</em></dt>
<dd><p>Return true if <var>x</var> is a single-quoted character string.
</p>
<p><strong>See also:</strong> <a href="#XREFis_005fdq_005fstring">is_dq_string</a>, <a href="Character-Arrays.html#XREFischar">ischar</a>.
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