New Lines and Special Characters

You've got text, now let's decide where lines break and add special characters with escape sequences.

The

newline

inside a string starts a new line:

c
printf("Hello

### World");

Output:

### Hello

### World

Other useful escapes

• \t - a tab (horizontal space)
• \\ - a single backslash
• \" - a double quote inside a string
• \0 - the null character (marks the end of a string)

Example

c
printf("Name:\tBilbo

### Quote: \"Not all those who wander are lost\"
");

Multiple newlines

Each `

` jumps one line, so two of them create a blank line:

c
printf("a

b");

Output: an empty line sits between a and b.

TL;DR

• `

` starts a new line.

• \t adds a tab.
• \\ and \" let you print backslashes and quotes.
• \0 is the null character that ends strings.