What's the escape sequence for blanks in C?

Question

I'm writing a program to count blanks, tabs, and newlines. I remember what the escape sequence for tabs and newlines are, but what about blanks? \b? Or is that backspace?

Answer 1

You mean "blanks" like in "a b"? That's a space: ' '.

Here's a list of escape sequences for reference.

Answer 2

If you want to check if a character is whitespace, you can use the isspace() function from <ctype.h>. In the default C locale, it checks for space, tab, form feed, newline, carriage return and vertical tab.