ASCII is short for 'American Standard Code for Information Interchange'
The ASCII Table
This table lists the ASCII characters and their
ASCII codes in decimal. Characters which appear as names in parentheses
(e.g., (nl)) are non-printing characters. A table of the
common non-printing characters appears after this table.
Character ASCII Character ASCII Character ASCII Character ASCII
code code code code
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(nul) 0 (sp) 32 @ 64 ` 96
(soh) 1 ! 33 A 65 a 97
(stx) 2 " 34 B 66 b 98
(etx) 3 # 35 C 67 c 99
(eot) 4 $ 36 D 68 d 100
(enq) 5 % 37 E 69 e 101
(acK) 6 & 38 F 70 f 102
(bel) 7 ' 39 G 71 g 103
(bs) 8 ( 40 H 72 h 104
(ht) 9 ) 41 I 73 i 105
(nl) 10 * 42 J 74 j 106
(vt) 11 + 43 K 75 k 107
(np) 12 , 44 L 76 l 108
(cr) 13 - 45 M 77 m 109
(so) 14 . 46 N 78 n 110
(si) 15 / 47 O 79 o 111
(dle) 16 0 48 P 80 p 112
(dc1) 17 1 49 Q 81 q 113
(dc2) 18 2 50 R 82 r 114
(dc3) 19 3 51 S 83 s 115
(dc4) 20 4 52 T 84 t 116
(nak) 21 5 53 U 85 u 117
(syn) 22 6 54 V 86 v 118
(etb) 23 7 55 W 87 w 119
(can) 24 8 56 X 88 x 120
(em) 25 9 57 Y 89 y 121
(sub) 26 : 58 Z 90 z 122
(esc) 27 ; 59 [ 91 { 123
(fs) 28 < 60 \ 92 | 124
(gs) 29 = 61 ] 93 } 125
(rs) 30 > 62 ^ 94 ~ 126
(us) 31 ? 63 _ 95 (del) 127
ASCII Name Description C Escape Sequence
nul null byte \0
bel bell character \a
bs backspace \b
ht horizontal tab \t
np formfeed \f
nl newline \n
cr carriage return \r
vt vertical tab
esc escape
sp space