CR

Updated: 12/26/2023 by Computer Hope

CR may refer to any of the following:

Carriage return

1. Short for carriage return, CR represents a carriage return done by pressing the Enter and Return key.

How to write a carriage return

In programming languages such as C, Java, and Perl and regular expressions the return or CR character is represented as a \r escape sequence.

Note

A carriage return is not the same as a newline or linefeed. However, the text CR may be combined with LF (line feed)to form CR/LF or CRLF (carriage return/line feed).

What are the codes used to write a carriage return?

The code for the symbol that represents a carriage return is 13 in ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) and 0D in hexadecimal.

2. The Internet domain suffix .cr is short for Costa Rica.

Computer acronyms, FF, Hard return, Keyboard terms, LF, Newline, Return, Soft Return