While using printf how to escape special characters in shell script?

Try

printf "%s\n" "$string"

See printf(1)

You can use $' ' to enclose the newlines and tab characters, then a plain echo will suffice:

#!/bin/bash get_lines() {       local string   string+='The path to K:\Users\ca, this is good'   string+=$'\n'   string+='The second line'   string+=$'\t'   string+='123'   string+=$'\n'   string+='It also has to be 100% nice than %99'   echo "$string"}get_lines

I have also made a couple of other minor changes to your script. As well as making your FUNCTION_NAME lowercase, I have also used the more widely compatible function syntax. In this case, there's not a great deal of advantage (as $' ' strings are a bash extension anyway) but there's no reason to use the function func() syntax as far as I'm aware. Also, the scope of string may as well be local to the function in which it is used, so I changed that too.

Output:

The path to K:\Users\ca, this is goodThe second line 123It also has to be 100% nice than %99

May I remark that "man printf" shows clearly that a "%" character has to escaped by means of another "%"so printf "%%" results in a single "%"