What does '\r' and '\b' mean? Please explain with example.

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What does '\r' and '\b' mean? Please explain with example. ..

Answer / ankita

\r is known as carriage return
e.g printf("ABC\rDE");
ABC.
then becoz of \r cursor comes back to the 1st char i.e here
A after that DE is there then finally it print
DEC with cursor on C.
\b is known as back literal
e.g. printf("ABC\bDE");
then ABC then finally ABDE will get printed.

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What does '\r' and '\b' mean? Please explain with example. ..

Answer / brite

Even you are wrong Siva.
printf("ABC\rDE") will print DEC not DE.

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What does '\r' and '\b' mean? Please explain with example. ..

Answer / siva

above two answers are wrong.
i tested the following is the correct answer


\r is known as carriage return
e.g printf("ABC\rDE");
DE will get printed.
\b is known as back literal
e.g. printf("ABC\bDE");
ABDE will get printed.

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What does '\r' and '\b' mean? Please explain with example. ..

Answer / subh

Depends on terminal configuration

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17236242/usage-of-b-and-r-in-c

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What does '\r' and '\b' mean? Please explain with example. ..

Answer / mahboob ur rahman

System.out.print("mahboob\rkhan");
output:
mahboob
it will just priint mahboob

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What does '\r' and '\b' mean? Please explain with example. ..

Answer / yogita

\r is used for carriage return and \b is used for computer
baep

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What does '\r' and '\b' mean? Please explain with example. ..

Answer / v

printf("ABC\bDE");


It prints only "DE", because the printed ABC will be removed
by '\b'

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