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Table 4. Regular Expression Special Characters
Construct
Matches
C
HARACTERS
The character
x
x
backslash
\\
character with octal value 0
n
\0
n
character with octal value 0
nn
\0
nn
character with octal value 0
nnn
(
nnn
377)
\0
nnn
character with hexadecimal 0x
hh
\x
hh
character with hexadecimal value 0x
hh-
hh
\u
hhhh
tab character (
'\u0009'
)
\t
newline character (
'\u000A'
)
\n
