Carriage return
In
computing, the
carriage return (
CR) is one of the control characters in
ASCII code or
EBCDIC that commands a
printer or other sort of display to move the position of the
cursor to the first position on the same line. It is mostly used along with
line feed, a move to the next line, while carriage return precedes line feed to indicate
new line.
In ASCII, it is defined as 13 in decimal and 0D in hexadecimal.
In the C programming language and many other languages influenced by it, \\r denotes this character.
The term derives from the fact that when this control character was sent to early printers, it would physically return the carriage, similar to the operation of a typewriter.
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