\r是回车，光标向后移动，就像我要做-一样

printf("stackoverflow\rnine")
ninekoverflow

表示已将光标移到“stackoverflow”的开头，并覆盖开始的4个字符，因为“nine”有4个字符长。

\n是新行字符，它改变行并将光标移到新行开头，如-

printf("stackoverflow\nnine")
stackoverflow
nine

\f是进给，它的用途已经过时了，但它被用于缩进

printf("stackoverflow\fnine")
stackoverflow
             nine

如果我这样写

printf("stackoverflow\fnine\fgreat")
stackoverflow
             nine
                 great

when I was an apprentice in the Royal Signals many (50) years ago, teletypes and typewriters had "Carriage" with the printing head on them. When you pressed RETURN the Carriage would fly to the left. Hence Carriage Return (CR). You could just return the Carriage, but on mechanical typewriters, you'd use the Lever (much like a tremolo lever on an electric guitar) which would also do the Line Feed. Your next question is why would you not want the line feed? heh heh well in those days to delete characters we'd do a CR then use a Tip-ex-like paper in between the hammerheads and paper and type the same keys to over-write with white ink. Some fancy typewriters had a key you could press. So there you go.

Consider an IBM 1403 impact printer. CR moved the print head to the start of the line, but did NOT advance the paper. This allowed for "overprinting", placing multiple lines of output on one line. Things like underlining were achieved this way, as was BOLD print. LF advanced the paper one line. If there was no CR, the next line would print as a staggered-step because LF didn't move the print head. FF advanced the paper to the next page. It typically also moved the print head to the start of the first line on the new page, but you might need CR for that. To be sure, most programmers coded CRFF instead of CRLF at the end of the last line on a page because an extra CR created by FF wouldn't matter.

\f用于换页。 在控制台中看不到任何效果。但是当你在文件中使用这个字符常量时，你就能看到区别了。

另一个例子是，如果你可以将输出重定向到一个文件，那么你就不必写文件或使用文件处理。

为例:

用c++编写以下代码

void main()    
{
    clrscr();
    cout<<"helloooooo" ;

    cout<<"\f";
    cout<<"hiiiii" ;

}

当你编译它的时候，它会生成一个exe(for exe . abc.exe)

然后你可以使用这个重定向输出到一个文件:

ABC > xyz.doc

然后打开xyz.doc文件，您可以看到helloo和hiiii....之间的实际分页符

“\n”是换行字符。这意味着结束当前行，并为正在阅读它的任何人转到新的行。

简而言之:

回车符(\r或0xD):从同一行开始控制。 换行(\n或0xA):控制从下一行开始。 表单提要(\f或0xC):控制从下一页开始。

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