Why are there so many white spaces in the ASCII characters.
I made a simple ASCII display and it seems like 1/10 characters are blank, so why?
Why are there so many white spaces in the ASCII characters.
I made a simple ASCII display and it seems like 1/10 characters are blank, so why?
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I meant the one that would result from;
Code:int count; int main() { count++; std::cout<<count<<": "<<(char)count; }
The link that cpjust provided still applies.
Look up a C++ Reference and learn How To Ask Questions The Smart WayOriginally Posted by Bjarne Stroustrup (2000-10-14)
No, as the the first character is ☺, 2 is ☻... and not all the holes are filled.
Those are glyphs that presumably represent those non-printable characters.
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The first 32 or so characters are non-printable. They represent various commands to a telex machine or so, for which it was invented (e.g ring bell etc)
I might be wrong.
Quoted more than 1000 times (I hope).Thank you, anon. You sure know how to recognize different types of trees from quite a long way away.
I dunno who came up with those, � is quite popular also. Anyway, those just stand in for unprintable things, they probably differ from system to system. As you can see, the ASCII table is not all characters:
7 = BEEP
11 = DEVICE CONTROL 1
etc.
C programming resources:
GNU C Function and Macro Index -- glibc reference manual
The C Book -- nice online learner guide
Current ISO draft standard
CCAN -- new CPAN like open source library repository
3 (different) GNU debugger tutorials: #1 -- #2 -- #3
cpwiki -- our wiki on sourceforge
