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Characters

Most of the characters in the ASCII character set may be referred to by name: for example, #\tab, #\esc, #\stx, and so on. The following table describes the ASCII names for each character.

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0 = #\nul @tab 1 = #\soh @tab 2 = #\stx @tab 3 = #\etx

4 = #\eot @tab 5 = #\enq @tab 6 = #\ack @tab 7 = #\bel

8 = #\bs @tab 9 = #\ht @tab 10 = #\nl @tab 11 = #\vt

12 = #\np @tab 13 = #\cr @tab 14 = #\so @tab 15 = #\si

16 = #\dle @tab 17 = #\dc1 @tab 18 = #\dc2 @tab 19 = #\dc3

20 = #\dc4 @tab 21 = #\nak @tab 22 = #\syn @tab 23 = #\etb

24 = #\can @tab 25 = #\em @tab 26 = #\sub @tab 27 = #\esc

28 = #\fs @tab 29 = #\gs @tab 30 = #\rs @tab 31 = #\us

32 = #\sp The delete character (octal 177) may be referred to with the name #\del. Several characters have more than one name:

#\space, #\sp
#\newline, #\nl
#\tab, #\ht
#\backspace, #\bs
#\return, #\cr
#\page, #\np
#\null, #\nul

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