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have an undesired interpretation. In this case, an escape sequence is a digraph consisting of an escape character itself and a "quoted" character.

Control character

In contrast to an escape character, a control character (i.e. carriage return) has meaning on its own, without a special prefix or following characters. An escape character has no meaning on its own. It only has meaning in the context

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