#control-characters

How to: What are carriage return, linefeed, and form feed?

What are carriage return, linefeed, and form feed?

What is the meaning of the following control characters:

Carriage return

Line feed

Form feed

Answer: What are carriage return, linefeed, and form feed?

Have a look at Wikipedia:

Systems based on ASCII or a compatible character set use either LF (Line feed, ‘\n’, 0x0A, 10 in decimal) or CR (Carriage return, ‘\r’, 0x0D, 13 in decimal)…