Special Characters

There are a number of special characters within JScript that you may need to use within strings in your code. The “escape characters” in Table B-9 can be used in place of these special characters, eliminating any errors that may have occurred.

Table B-9: Special Characters

Character	Represents
\b	Backspace
\f	Form feed
\n	Line feed (newline)
\r	Carriage return
\t	Horizontal tab (CTRL-I)
\'	Single quotation mark
\"	Double quotation mark
\\	Backslash