JavaScript Escape Sequences Entering special characters in strings and regular expressions
Example
Most printable characters can be included in string or regular expression literals just as they are, e.g.
var str = "ポケモン"; // a valid string
var regExp = /[Α-Ωα-ω]/; // matches any Greek letter without diacritics
In order to add arbitrary characters to a string or regular expression, including non-printable ones, one has to use escape sequences. Escape sequences consist of a backslash ("\") followed by one or more other characters. To write an escape sequence for a particular character, one typically (but not always) needs to know its hexadecimal character code.
JavaScript provides a number of different ways to specify escape sequences, as documented in the examples in this topic. For instance, the following escape sequences all denote the same character: the line feed (Unix newline character), with character code U+000A.
\n\x0a\u000a\u{a}new in ES6, only in strings\012forbidden in string literals in strict mode and in template strings\cjonly in regular expressions
