Carriage return

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    On a typewriter or computer printer, the action that returns it to the beginning of the next line.
  2. 2
    the operation that prepares for the next character to be printed or displayed as the first character on a line wordnet
  3. 3
    The control character (0x0D in ASCII, abbreviated as CR) that originally signaled a device to perform a carriage return, but now merely indicates the end of a line of text (newline).

    "[…] but it also reduces the likelihood of the "unterminated string literal" error message that can easily occur for seemingly trivial reasons when you're working with long strings — an accidental carriage return or a misnested quotation mark is all it takes."

  4. 4
    The key or lever that initiates the carriage return action (on a typewriter) or generates the carriage return character (on a computer).

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"[…] but it also reduces the likelihood of the "unterminated string literal" error message that can easily occur for seemingly trivial reasons when you're working with long strings — an accidental carriage return or a misnested quotation mark is all it takes."

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