Escape Sequences for Special Characters

You can enter special characters in strings using the following escape sequences:

Escape Sequence	Processed as:
\*	Match any character. This escape sequence is only available on the set alarm match=string option.
\a	Alert character.
\b	Backspace character.
\f	Form-feed character.
\n	New-line character.
\r	Carriage-return character.
\s	Acts as a separator between characters. This sequence allows entering a string such as \xB8\s4 where B8 should be translated as a hexadecimal character separate from the numeric character 4.
\t	Horizontal tab character.
\v	Vertical tab character.
\\	Backslash character ( \ ).
\xN	A hexadecimal number, where N is up to 20 hexadecimal digits. For example: \x10\x2
\N	An octal byte, where N is up to 3 octal digits. For example: \2 or \208