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COMPUTER ANALOGUES In Computing , the carriage return ('''CR''') is one of the Control Characters in ASCII Code , Unicode or EBCDIC that commands a Printer or other sort of display to move the position of the Cursor to the first position on the same line. It was mostly used along with Line Feed , a move to the next line, while carriage return precedes line feed to indicate a New Line . The term derives from the above usage, as early printers often closely resembled typewriters; this control character would activate a physical carriage-return mechanism. Many computer programs use the carriage return character, alone or with a line feed, to signal the end of a line of text, but other characters are also used for this function (see Newline ); others use it only for a paragraph break (a Hard Return ). Some standards which introduce their own representations for line and paragraph control (for example HTML ) treat carriage return and line feed as Whitespace . In ASCII and Unicode , the Character Code Decimal 13 (or Hexadecimal 0D) is defined to be carriage return. In the C Programming Language and many other languages influenced by it,
denotes this character.Though used interchangebly today, the Return Key and Enter Key on PC keyboards actually send different Scan Code , so can be programmed for different uses. USER INTERFACE FUNCTIONALITY See Also: Enter key On Windows , Macintosh and most other GUI Operating Systems , hitting the return key also results in the default option of a Dialog Box (usually ''OK'' or ''Yes'') being selected. SUMMARY
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