| English | German |
| control escape sequence | Escapesequenz für Steuerzeichen (In regular expressions, a backslash followed by the letter "c" followed by one of the letters "a" through "z" or "A" through 'Z'. It matches the ASCII control character that is named by that letter) |
| escape character | Escapezeichen (A single character that suppresses any special meaning of the character that follows it) |
| escape sequence | Escapesequenz (A character combination consisting of an escape character, usually a backslash, followed by a letter or by a combination of digits) |
| file format escape | Dateiformat-Escapezeichen (" In regular expressions, the usual C language character escape sequences, "\\", "\a", "\b", "\f", "\n", "\r", "\t", "\v", with the usual meanings, that is, backslash, alert, backspace, form feed, newline, carriage return, horizontal tab, and vertical tab, respectively.") |
| hexadecimal escape sequence | Escapesequenz für Hexadezimalzahlen (In regular expressions, a backslash followed by the letter "x" followed by a sequence of hexadecimal digits. It matches a character in the target sequence that has the value that is specified by the two digits) |
| identity escape | Identitätsescapezeichen (In regular expressions, a backslash followed by a single character. It matches that character and is required when the character has a special meaning; by using the identity escape, the special meaning is removed) |
| octal escape sequence | Escapesequenz für Oktalzahlen (In regular expressions, a backslash followed by one, two, or three octal digits (0-7). It matches a character in the target sequence that has the value that is specified by those digits) |
| unicode escape sequence | Escapesequenz für Unicodezeichen (In regular expressions, a backslash followed by the letter "u" followed by four hexadecimal digits. It matches a character in the target sequence that has the value that is specified by the four digits) |
