CONTROLCHARACTER

Control character

In computing and telecommunication, a control character or non-printing character is a code point in a character set, that does not in itself represent a written symbol.

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control character

Noun

  1. A character which does not have a direct visual appearance as a glyph, but rather causes some other display action to occur, such as a transition to a new line.
    The tab, carriage return, and line feed are all control characters.


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