Top "Control-characters" questions

Control characters are non-printing characters used to send signals to the output terminal.

What are carriage return, linefeed, and form feed?

What is the meaning of the following control characters: Carriage return Line feed Form feed

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Finding the Values of the Arrow Keys in Python: Why are they triples?

I am trying to find the values that my local system assigns to the arrow keys, specifically in Python. I …

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What does PuTTY send when I press Enter key?

I am trying desperately to get a Bluetooth dongle working with my Arduino but I can't send it a command …

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Match non printable/non ascii characters and remove from text

My JavaScript is quite rusty so any help with this would be great. I have a requirement to detect non …

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Why is '\x' invalid in Python?

I was experimenting with '\' characters, using '\a\b\c...' just to enumerate for myself which characters …

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Removing control characters from a UTF-8 string

I found this question but it removes all valid utf-8 characters also (returns me a blank string, while there are …

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Find/replace string with carriage return and line feed in PowerShell

Is there a way to have PowerShell find and replace a string (for example ~}}|{{E) with a carriage return and …

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cscript - print output on same line on console?

If I have a cscript that outputs lines to the screen, how do I avoid the "line feed" after each …

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Escaping control characters in Oracle XDB

I'm completely new to Oracle's XDB, in particular using it to generate XML output from a database table, and am …

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What's the file/group/record/unit separator control characters and its usage?

Unicode defines several control characters from ASCII. http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf I see many control characters …

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