What are escape characters?
Escape characters are the equivalent characters for a purpose. The main purpose of using an escape character is to notify the compiler or interpreter, that a particular character is having special meaning rather than it’s normal meaning. Following are the escape characters in PHP.
| Escape characters | Meaning |
| \n | New line |
| \t | Horizontal tab |
| \\ | Backslash |
| \$ | Dollar sign |
| \" | Double Quotes |
