Ascii Control Character (Noun)
Meaning
ASCII characters to indicate carriage return or tab or backspace; typed by depressing a key and the control key at the same time.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The ASCII control character Ctrl+M was used to indicate a carriage return in older systems.
- She had to learn about the different ASCII control characters such as Ctrl+H for backspace.
- Programmers used the ASCII control character Ctrl+I to represent a tab in their code.
- In computing, ASCII control characters are typed by pressing the control key and another key simultaneously.
- The system used ASCII control characters such as Ctrl+J for line feed to format the output.