<P> 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) and many programming languages treat carriage return and line feed as whitespace . </P> <P> In ASCII and Unicode, the carriage return is defined as 13 (or hexadecimal 0D); it may also be seen as control + M or ^ M. In the C programming language, and many other languages influenced by it, \ r denotes this character . </P>

What is the control character for carriage return