All the characters that require a backslash character to be taken literally within a pattern.
Character
Description
f
Form feed
n
Newline
r
Carriage return
t
Tab
v
Vertical tab
/
Forward slash (/)
\
Backward slash ()
.
Period (.)
*
Asterisk (*)
+
Plus (+)
?
Question Mark (?)
|
Horizontal bar (|)
(
Left parenthesis (
)
Right parenthesis )
[
Left bracket ([)
]
Right bracket (])
{
Left curly brace ({)
}
Right curly brace (})
XXX
ASCII character represented by the octal number XXX
xHH
ASCII character represented by the hexadecimal number HH
cX
The control character represented by X
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