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Perl » String » Escape 
Text Formatting
    

You can perform some basic text formatting using escape characters. 

An escape character is a special character that you preface with a backslash (\)
It indicates that the escape character is a special character that should be specially interpreted.

Escape characters. 
Escape Character     Means
\"     Double quotation mark
\t      Tab
\n      Newline
\r      Return
\f      Form feed
\b      Backspace
\a      Alarm (bell)
\e      Escape
\033      Octal char
\x1b      Hex char
\c[      Control char

   
    
    
    
  
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