ASCII Table

What is ASCII Character Set?

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Introduction
ASCII Character Set
- Device Control Characters
- Printable Characters

Introduction

What is ASCII text?

ASCII, an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is the first character set (encoding standard) used between computers on the Internet.

The complete ASCII character set includes 95 printable characters and 33 control characters (non-printing chars).

The ASCII Character Set

ASCII Device Control Characters (non-printing chars)

ASCII character set includes 33 control characters, which have no graphical representations (non-printable on screen).

The first 32 characters (values: 0-31)
The last character (value: 127)

Char	Number	Description
NUL	00	null character
SOH	01	start of heading
STX	02	start of text
ETX	03	end of text
EOT	04	end of transmission
ENQ	05	enquiry
ACK	06	acknowledge
BEL	07	bell
BS	08	backspace
HT	09	horizontal tab
LF	10	line feed, new line
VT	11	vertical tab
FF	12	form feed, new page
CR	13	carriage return
SO	14	shift out
SI	15	shift in
DLE	16	data link escape
DC1	17	device control 1
DC2	18	device control 2
DC3	19	device control 3
DC4	20	device control 4
NAK	21	negative acknowledge
SYN	22	synchronous idle
ETB	23	end transmission block
CAN	24	cancel
EM	25	end of medium
SUB	26	substitute
ESC	27	escape
FS	28	file separator
GS	29	group separator
RS	30	record separator
US	31	unit separator

DEL	127	delete

ASCII Printable Characters

Char	Number	Description
	0 - 31	Control characters (view)
	32	space
!	33	exclamation mark
"	34	quotation mark
#	35	number sign
$	36	dollar sign
%	37	per cent sign
&	38	ampersand
'	39	apostrophe
(	40	open parenthesis
)	41	close parenthesis
*	42	asterisk
+	43	plus sign
,	44	comma
-	45	hyphen
.	46	period
/	47	slash
0	48	digit 0
1	49	digit 1
2	50	digit 2
3	51	digit 3
4	52	digit 4
5	53	digit 5
6	54	digit 6
7	55	digit 7
8	56	digit 8
9	57	digit 9
:	58	colon
;	59	semicolon
<	60	less than
=	61	equals to
>	62	greater than
?	63	question mark
@	64	at sign
A	65	uppercase A
B	66	uppercase B
C	67	uppercase C
D	68	uppercase D
E	69	uppercase E
F	70	uppercase F
G	71	uppercase G
H	72	uppercase H
I	73	uppercase I
J	74	uppercase J
K	75	uppercase K
L	76	uppercase L
M	77	uppercase M
N	78	uppercase N
O	79	uppercase O
P	80	uppercase P
Q	81	uppercase Q
R	82	uppercase R
S	83	uppercase S
T	84	uppercase T
U	85	uppercase U
V	86	uppercase V
W	87	uppercase W
X	88	uppercase X
Y	89	uppercase Y
Z	90	uppercase Z
[	91	opening square bracket
\	92	backslash
]	93	closing square bracket
^	94	caret
_	95	underscore
`	96	grave accent
a	97	lowercase a
b	98	lowercase b
c	99	lowercase c
d	100	lowercase d
e	101	lowercase e
f	102	lowercase f
g	103	lowercase g
h	104	lowercase h
i	105	lowercase i
j	106	lowercase j
k	107	lowercase k
l	108	lowercase l
m	109	lowercase m
n	110	lowercase n
o	111	lowercase o
p	112	lowercase p
q	113	lowercase q
r	114	lowercase r
s	115	lowercase s
t	116	lowercase t
u	117	lowercase u
v	118	lowercase v
w	119	lowercase w
x	120	lowercase x
y	121	lowercase y
z	122	lowercase z
{	123	opening curly brace
\|	124	vertical bar
}	125	closing curly brace
~	126	tilde