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Move string escape sequence documention further down

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If someone looks at documention for strings,
I don't think escape sequences is what they look
for in majority of the cases.
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Earlopain 2024-12-13 08:43:14 +01:00 committed by Nobuyoshi Nakada
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Merged: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/12318
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@ -138,46 +138,6 @@ Also \Rational numbers may be imaginary numbers.
== \String Literals
=== Escape Sequences
Some characters can be represented as escape sequences in
double-quoted strings,
character literals,
here document literals (non-quoted, double-quoted, and with backticks),
double-quoted symbols,
double-quoted symbol keys in Hash literals,
Regexp literals, and
several percent literals (<tt>%</tt>, <tt>%Q</tt>, <tt>%W</tt>, <tt>%I</tt>, <tt>%r</tt>, <tt>%x</tt>).
They allow escape sequences such as <tt>\n</tt> for
newline, <tt>\t</tt> for tab, etc. The full list of supported escape
sequences are as follows:
\a bell, ASCII 07h (BEL)
\b backspace, ASCII 08h (BS)
\t horizontal tab, ASCII 09h (TAB)
\n newline (line feed), ASCII 0Ah (LF)
\v vertical tab, ASCII 0Bh (VT)
\f form feed, ASCII 0Ch (FF)
\r carriage return, ASCII 0Dh (CR)
\e escape, ASCII 1Bh (ESC)
\s space, ASCII 20h (SPC)
\\ backslash, \
\nnn octal bit pattern, where nnn is 1-3 octal digits ([0-7])
\xnn hexadecimal bit pattern, where nn is 1-2 hexadecimal digits ([0-9a-fA-F])
\unnnn Unicode character, where nnnn is exactly 4 hexadecimal digits ([0-9a-fA-F])
\u{nnnn ...} Unicode character(s), where each nnnn is 1-6 hexadecimal digits ([0-9a-fA-F])
\cx or \C-x control character, where x is an ASCII printable character
\M-x meta character, where x is an ASCII printable character
\M-\C-x meta control character, where x is an ASCII printable character
\M-\cx same as above
\c\M-x same as above
\c? or \C-? delete, ASCII 7Fh (DEL)
\<newline> continuation line (empty string)
The last one, <tt>\<newline></tt>, represents an empty string instead of a character.
It is used to fold a line in a string.
=== Double-Quoted \String Literals
The most common way of writing strings is using <tt>"</tt>:
@ -265,6 +225,46 @@ that corresponds to a single codepoint in the script encoding:
?\C-\M-a #=> "\x81", same as above
?あ #=> "あ"
=== Escape Sequences
Some characters can be represented as escape sequences in
double-quoted strings,
character literals,
here document literals (non-quoted, double-quoted, and with backticks),
double-quoted symbols,
double-quoted symbol keys in Hash literals,
Regexp literals, and
several percent literals (<tt>%</tt>, <tt>%Q</tt>, <tt>%W</tt>, <tt>%I</tt>, <tt>%r</tt>, <tt>%x</tt>).
They allow escape sequences such as <tt>\n</tt> for
newline, <tt>\t</tt> for tab, etc. The full list of supported escape
sequences are as follows:
\a bell, ASCII 07h (BEL)
\b backspace, ASCII 08h (BS)
\t horizontal tab, ASCII 09h (TAB)
\n newline (line feed), ASCII 0Ah (LF)
\v vertical tab, ASCII 0Bh (VT)
\f form feed, ASCII 0Ch (FF)
\r carriage return, ASCII 0Dh (CR)
\e escape, ASCII 1Bh (ESC)
\s space, ASCII 20h (SPC)
\\ backslash, \
\nnn octal bit pattern, where nnn is 1-3 octal digits ([0-7])
\xnn hexadecimal bit pattern, where nn is 1-2 hexadecimal digits ([0-9a-fA-F])
\unnnn Unicode character, where nnnn is exactly 4 hexadecimal digits ([0-9a-fA-F])
\u{nnnn ...} Unicode character(s), where each nnnn is 1-6 hexadecimal digits ([0-9a-fA-F])
\cx or \C-x control character, where x is an ASCII printable character
\M-x meta character, where x is an ASCII printable character
\M-\C-x meta control character, where x is an ASCII printable character
\M-\cx same as above
\c\M-x same as above
\c? or \C-? delete, ASCII 7Fh (DEL)
\<newline> continuation line (empty string)
The last one, <tt>\<newline></tt>, represents an empty string instead of a character.
It is used to fold a line in a string.
=== Here Document Literals
If you are writing a large block of text you may use a "here document" or