K&R Exercise 1.2 list the escape sequence

Problem Statement

Exercise 1.2 Experiment to find out what happens when printf's argument string contains \c, where c is some character not listed above.

Solution

\c is called as escape sequence in C.

Here are commonly used escape sequence-

Escape  Sequence	Character
\a	Bell
\b	Backspace
\f	Form feed
\n	New line
\r	Carriage Return
\t	Tab
\v	Vertical tab
\\	Backslash
\?	Question mark
\'	Single quote
\"	Double quote
\xnn	Hexadecimal character  code nn
\onn	Octal character code nn
\nn	Octal character code nn

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