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USING ESCAPE SEQUENCES WITH STRINGS
                  Escape sequences or characters are used to represent special characters that cannot be directly

                  inserted into a string.
                  An escape sequence is a sequence of characters that does not represent itself when used inside
                  a  character  or string.  It is  typically  used  to  specify  actions  such  as  carriage  returns and  tab
                  movements. The backslash (\) is a special character and is also known as the escape character in

                  Python. To include special characters like quotes within a string, you need to escape them with a
                  backlash. It is used to represent white space characters, for example, '\t' for tab, '\n' for new line,
                  and '\r' is for carriage return.

                  Program 6: To demonstrate the use of escape character

                      Program6.py
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                   print('I love programming in \n Python')




                  You will get the following output:

                      Output

                   I love programming in
                    Python



                  TRAVERSING A STRING

                  Traversing means visiting each element and processing it as required by the program. We can
                  access the characters of a string one at a time using indexing.

                  There are two ways of indexing:
                     Positive Indexing: Index from left starts with 0.

                     Negative Indexing: Index from right starts with -1.

                  The syntax for traversing a string is as follows:

                    <name of the string> [index]
                  Program 7: To access different elements of a string


                      Program7.py
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                   name = 'orange'
                   print(name[0])
                   print(name[-1])






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