Re: Backslash Escape Sequences - Mailing list pgsql-docs

>> Andy Anderson wrote:
>>
>>> In any case, here's a contribution to the manual, a short table with
>>> this information, in a format that might help make the subject
>>> clearer.
>> Modify at will!

> On Apr 30, 2008, at 6:04 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> FWIW if you really want to make a contribution to the docs, please
>> see
>> the SGML sources instead of the HTML output (which is machine-
>> generated).

OK, then, I hope the following is accurate enough SGML to be more
useful. Submitted here per the instructions on <http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/bug-reporting.html
 >.

-- Andy

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<table id="sql-backslash-table">
    <title>Backslash Escape Sequences</title>
    <tgroup cols="2">
        <thead>
            <row>
                <entry>Backslash Escape Sequence</>
                <entry>Interpretation</entry>
            </row>
        </thead>
        <tbody>
            <row>
                <entry><literal>\b</literal></entry>
                <entry>backspace</entry>
            </row>
            <row>
                <entry><literal>\f</literal></entry>
                <entry>form feed</entry>
            </row>
            <row>
                <entry><literal>\n</literal></entry>
                <entry>newline</entry>
            </row>
            <row>
                <entry><literal>\r</literal></entry>
                <entry>carriage return</entry>
            </row>
            <row>
                <entry><literal>\t</literal></entry>
                <entry>tab</entry>
            </row>
            <row>
                <entry>
                    <literallayout>
                        <literal>\<replaceable>o</replaceable></literal>
                        <literal>\<replaceable>oo</replaceable></literal>
                        <literal>\<replaceable>ooo</replaceable></literal>
                        (<replaceable>o</replaceable> = 0 - 7)
                    </literallayout>
                </entry>
                <entry>octal byte value</entry>
            </row>
            <row>
                <entry>
                    <literallayout>
                        <literal>\x<replaceable>h</replaceable></literal>
                        <literal>\x<replaceable>hh</replaceable></literal>
                        (<replaceable>h</replaceable> = 0 - F)
                    </literallayout>
                </entry>
                <entry>hexadecimal byte value</entry>
            </row>
            <row>
                <entry>
                    <literallayout>
                        <literal>\<replaceable>a</replaceable></literal>
                        (<replaceable>a</replaceable> = any other character than the
above,
                        e.g. <literal>\</literal> and <literal>'</literal>.)
                    </literallayout>
                </entry>
                <entry><replaceable>a</replaceable></entry>
            </row>
        </tbody>
     </tgroup>
</table>