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title: "Escape Codes | open.mp"
description: "When create a string you may find that some character may be impossible or extremely difficult to express in the source code of your script, this is where escape codes come in handy - these allow you to use the symbols and expressions that come under this category. Below is a list of escape codes for the PAWN language."
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# Escape Codes

When create a string you may find that some character may be impossible or extremely difficult to express in the source code of your script, this is where escape codes come in handy - these allow you to use the symbols and expressions that come under this category. Below is a list of escape codes for the PAWN language.

| Escape Codes | Code |
| --- | --- |
| Audible beep (on server machine) | \\a (also \\7) |
| Backspace | \\b |
| Escape | \\e |
| Form feed | \\f |
| New line | \\n |
| Carriage return | \\r |
| Horizontal tab | \\t |
| Vertical tab | \\v |
| Backslash (\\) | \\\\ |
| Single quote (') | \\' |
| Double quote (") | \\" |
| Percent sign | \\% |
| Character code with decimal code "ddd". | \\ddd; |
| Character code with hexadecimal code "hhh". | \\xhhh; |

note

The semicolon after the \\ddd; and \\xhhh; codes is optional. Its purpose is to give the escape sequence an explicit termination symbol when it is used in a string constant.

Source: [pawn-lang.pdf (pg 99)](https://github.com/pawn-lang/compiler/raw/master/doc/pawn-lang.pdf)