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Carriage Return

Last Updated November 17, 2021 1:57 pm

What is Carriage Return?

Often abbreviated CR, a carriage return is a special code that moves the cursor (or print head) to the beginning of the current line. In the ASCII character set, a carriage return has a decimal value of 13.

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