A carriagereturn, sometimes known as a cartridge return and often shortened to CR, or return, is a control character or mechanism used to reset a device's position to the beginning of a line of text. It is closely associated with the line feed and newline concepts, although it can be considered separately in its own right.
<character> (CR, Control-M, ASCII 13) The character which
causes the cursor to move to the left margin, often used
with line feed to start a new line of output.
Encoded in C and Unix as "
".
(1996-06-24)
carriagereturn
CONTROL CHARACTER, OR MECHANISM, USED TO RESET A DEVICE'S POSITION TO THE BEGINNING OF A LINE OF TEXT