| Control Character | ASCII Decimal | Escape Sequence | |------------------|---------------|------------------| | Backspace (BS) | 8 | \b | | Tab | 9 | \t | | Line Feed | 10 | \n | | Carriage Return | 13 | \r | | Delete (DEL) | 127 | (none standard) |
In many programming languages (C, C++, Python, etc.), Backspace is represented as:
Backspacing didn't originally erase text; it simply moved the carriage back so a user could overstrike a character (e.g., creating a "≠" by typing "=" and backspacing to add a "/").
\b