String Escape Codes

\n: Newline
\r: Carriage return
\t: Horizontal TAB
\b: Backspace
\f: Form feed
\\: Backslash
\(: Left parenthesis
\): Right parenthesis
\ddd: The character code ddd, where ddd is in octal.

In addition to these basic codes, a backslash just before a newline allows you to break a string across two lines without inserting a newline into the string. That is, the string:

(This is a \
string \
that has no \
newlines)

is equivalent to the string:(This is a string that has no newlines).