| Spanish | English |
| carácter de escape | escape character (A single character that suppresses any special meaning of the character that follows it) |
| carácter de escape de identidad | identity escape (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) |
| secuencia de escape | escape sequence (A character combination consisting of an escape character, usually a backslash, followed by a letter or by a combination of digits) |
| secuencia de escape de caracteres | file format escape (" 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.") |
| secuencia de escape hexadecimal | hexadecimal escape sequence (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) |
| secuencia de escape octal | octal escape sequence (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) |
| secuencia de escape Unicode | unicode escape sequence (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) |
