🟨JavaScript escape strings

special workarounds for Strings

Line breaks with \n

To print output with line breaks in the console using one line of code, insert the escape sequence \n where we want each line break to occur

let hours = "Business hours \nMonday-Friday 9-5 \nSaturday 12-6 \nSunday 12-5"
console.log(hours)

/* output:
Business hours
Monday-Friday 9-5
Saturday 12-6
Sunday 12-5 */

Quotation marks with \"

When a String in JavaScript contains quotation marks, we would escape them with a backslash \ before each quotation mark:

let narration = "Then he yelled \"Let there be quotation marks!\"
console.log(narration)

/* output:
Then he yelled "Let there be quotation marks!"
*/

let singleQuotes = 'Yes, these are \'scare quotes\'!'
console.log(singleQuotes)

/* output:
Yes, these are 'scare quotes'!

Tab indents with \t

Similar to \n for line breaks, we use \t for tab indents (4 character spaces):

let tabbed = "Something \n\ttabbed"
console.log(tabbed)

/* output: 
Something
    tabbed
*/