What is escape sequence?

Answer 1

An escape sequence is a sequence of characters that does not represent itself when used inside a character or string literal, but is translated into another character or a sequence of characters that may be difficult or impossible to represent directly.

Answer 2

its when a certain character escape their fate, and become something else.
like n. "n" is just n, simple ordinary n. once you give them the sacred sword of backslash, n can escape its fate, and found a new life as a newline character. look at it proudly holding the sword as newline character "\n".

ok, enough of a tale of n for now. and see what the other say.

https://www.sololearn.com/discuss/1516843/?ref=app
https://www.sololearn.com/discuss/1685084/?ref=app
https://www.sololearn.com/discuss/478423/?ref=app
https://www.sololearn.com/discuss/1921614/?ref=app
https://www.sololearn.com/discuss/1734936/?ref=app

Answer 3

An escape sequence is nothing but a special character which is preceded by a backslash '\'.

This is understood by the compiler at compilation time and it assigns the special character it's function.