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FORTRAN 77 Language Reference

Escape Sequences @

For compatibility with C usage, the following backslash escapes are recognized. If you include the escape sequence in a character string, then you get the indicated character.

Table 2-3 Backslash Escape Sequences

Escape Sequence 

Character  

\n

Newline 

\r

Carriage return 

\t

Tab 

\b

Backspace  

\f

Form feed 

\v

Vertical tab 

\0

Null 

\'

Apostrophe, which does not terminate a string 

\"

Quotation mark, which does not terminate a string 

\\

\ 

\x

x, where x is any other character

If you compile with the -xl option, then the backslash character (\) is treated as an ordinary character. That is, with the -xl option, you cannot use these escape sequences to get special characters.

Technically, the escape sequences are not nonstandard, but are implementation- defined.