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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. The term derives from the above usage, as early printers often closely resembled typewriters; this control character would activate a physical carriage-return mechanism.

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.

1 See also

• Line feed
• CRLF

2 References

• http://cq-pan.cqu.edu.au/students/markh1/data-az.html
• http://www.rkelleher.com/glossary_v0.htm