What does "\t" do?

[James1st]

This is a general question.
I have searched the Internet for an answer but could not find anything.

I know what "\n" is and how to use it.

Now I have come across "\t", and I don't know what that is.

Is there a table of some sort that lists and explains the different "\(letter) things?

[Peter87]

'\t' is the horizontal tab character.

http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/escape

[James1st]

Thank you for the quick reply. I did search for the answer before posting, but couldn't find a decent answer. My goodness, there is so much to learn!
Again, thank you for being so tolerant.

[tipaye]

@James1st
I feel you. Years ago I was trying to understand msdos make.exe and makefiles. Tried googling "$<" and "$@". Man I almost cried that day :-)