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ASCII Reference Table

Char Decimal Hex Binary Octal Description

Common ASCII Codes

Control Characters

NUL (0) - Null character
BEL (7) - Bell
BS (8) - Backspace
HT (9) - Horizontal Tab
LF (10) - Line Feed
CR (13) - Carriage Return
ESC (27) - Escape
DEL (127) - Delete

Printable Characters

Space (32) - ' '
Exclamation (33) - '!'
Quote (34) - '"'
Hash (35) - '#'
Dollar (36) - '$'
Percent (37) - '%'
Ampersand (38) - '&'
Apostrophe (39) - '''

What is ASCII?

ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is a character encoding standard for electronic communication.

ASCII codes represent text in computers, telecommunications equipment, and other devices. Most modern character-encoding schemes are based on ASCII.

Key Facts:

  • 7-bit standard (0-127)
  • Extended ASCII (0-255)
  • 128 standard characters
  • 95 printable characters
  • 33 control characters

Number Systems

Decimal (Base 10)

Standard decimal numbers (0-255)

Binary (Base 2)

Computer representation (0s and 1s)

Hexadecimal (Base 16)

Compact representation (0-9, A-F)

Octal (Base 8)

Unix file permissions (0-7)