Re: List of backslash printing controls?

[Mike Miller]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Marek Szczypinski wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Robert A. Macy wrote:
>
> > Can't find this anywhere in the manual.
> >
> > Where is the list of backslash printing controls?
> >
> > I know about \n , never found \t, but probably gives tab
> >
> > how about \r ? Does that give a "repeat" line?
> >
> > Also, interested in how to make the console beep with ascii
> > character 0x07
> >
> > Don't want speakers, need built in beep.
> (about backslash characters)Try:
> http://www.octave.org/doc/octave_6.html#SEC56
> Maybe this will help.

Also, "man perlre" has some of the same info.  For a bell, you need the 
\a.  The \r is a carriage return without a line feed.  You can write to 
the same line over and over by using \r instead of \n.  It's nice for 
keeping track of progress in a loop.

Mike



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