ASCII control code chart

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The following table was copied from the Wikipedia entry for ASCII - the American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

Decimal

Hexadecimal

Abbreviation

Caret notation[b]

Name

0

00

NUL

^@

Null character

1

01

SOH

^A

Start of Header

2

02

STX

^B

Start of Text

3

03

ETX

^C

End of Text

4

04

EOT

^D

End of Transmission

5

05

ENQ

^E

Enquiry

6

06

ACK

^F

Acknowledgment

7

07

BEL

^G

Bell

8

08

BS

^H

Backspace[d][e]

9

09

HT

^I

Horizontal Tab[f]

10

0A

LF

^J

Line feed

11

0B

VT

^K

Vertical Tab

12

0C

FF

^L

Form feed

13

0D

CR

^M

Carriage return[g]

14

0E

SO

^N

Shift Out

15

0F

SI

^O

Shift In

16

10

DLE

^P

Data Link Escape

17

11

DC1

^Q

Device Control 1 (oft. XON)

18

12

DC2

^R

Device Control 2

19

13

DC3

^S

Device Control 3 (oft. XOFF)

20

14

DC4

^T

Device Control 4

21

15

NAK

^U

Negative Acknowledgment

22

16

SYN

^V

Synchronous idle

23

17

ETB

^W

End of Transmission Block

24

18

CAN

^X

Cancel

25

19

EM

^Y

End of Medium

26

1A

SUB

^Z

Substitute

27

1B

ESC

^[

Escape[i]

28

1C

FS

^\

File Separator

29

1D

GS

^]

Group Separator

30

1E

RS

^^[j]

Record Separator

31

1F

US

^_

Unit Separator






127

7F

DEL

^?

Delete[k][e]