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National Teaching and Learning Change ProgrammeInformation and Communication Technology: Dictionary

control character

Many character sets also have codes for control characters. These non-printing characters are used for special purposes. Examples of control characters are end of record and end of file characters in a file, carriage return and line feed for a printer, begin and end transmission with a modem, and cursor movement on a screen. Often represented by the caret symbol, ^.

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American National Standards Institute (ANSI)ASCIIcharacter setcharacternon-printing charactercursorcursor control keyreturnline feed^ (caret)end of file (EOF) character
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