Escape Sequences and Comments in C

What are Escape Sequences?

Escape sequences are special character combinations starting with a backslash \ used to represent characters that can't be typed directly, such as a new line or a tab.

Common Escape Sequences

• \n — new line
• \t — horizontal tab
• \\ — backslash
• \' — single quote
• \" — double quote
• \0 — null character
• \r — carriage return

printf("Name:\tJohn\nAge:\t25\n");

Comments in C

Comments are ignored by the compiler and used to explain code.

// Single-line comment

/* Multi-line
   comment */