title: Visual Studio 2005: \a escape sequence appears in string but can't remove
body: <p>I'm working in J# with text extracted from MS Word using Excel interop. Right now I'm having a problem with text extracted from a cell. The cell is a row header, the visible text is "Total", but the extracted string is "Total\r\a". I want to remove the escape sequence, but VS won't detect or remove \a.</p>
  
  <pre><code>cellText = cellText.Replace("\r", ""); //works
  
  cellText = cellText.Replace("\a", ""); //error: unrecognized escape sequence
  cellText = cellText.Replace("\\a", ""); //doesn't remove the sequence
  cellText.Contains("\\a") returns false.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any ideas?</p>