javascriptstringarangodbconsole.log

How to use \n in a javascript string

Example:

var i = 'Hello \n World'
console.log(i)

Would return:

Hello
World

and I want it to return

Hello \n World

not rendering the new line, as I intend to store this in a database.

FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO STORE \n in Database

You don't need to escape, as your Document Database will do JSON.stringify, I use ArangoDB and it works perfectly fine, thanks to @PaulPro

Solution

  • You would escape the \ with \\, which would tell the interpreter just to produce the character without processing it as a special character:

    var i = 'Hello \\n World';
console.log(i)

    Here are all the string escape codes: