Ascii list

I wrote a simple program to display ASCII code but when I run it, some of the ASCII stuffs up and my computer makes a loud beep, does anyone know why?
thanks

Certain characters, when printed, cause a beeping sound (beep chars). I'd imagine those music lyric icons do.

Beep beep!

I'm sure there's some historical reason for this. However I'm more interested in how to easily disable it, other than filtering strings of course.

The beep is \b typically, and IIRC, it's 8. The music notes are just characters, not sounds. 10 is \n, 13 is \r. You might take a look at asciitable.com


Quzah.

lol thanks, no wonder... so it's actually meant to 'screw' up and appear like that!

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Originally Posted by quzah

The beep is \b typically, and IIRC, it's 8.

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I thought that \b was for backspace, and \a was for alert, the latter typically resulting in a beep.

That's it. Been a long time since I've needed either.

Quzah.

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Originally Posted by C++ student

lol thanks, no wonder... so it's actually meant to 'screw' up and appear like that!

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It might be a good idea to filter out all non-printable, non-space characters. For one thing, their appearance on the display isn't really ASCII, but whatever the OS and current code-page maps them to. For another, they can obviously lead to some weird effects (such as the one you encountered). I'd recommend something like this:

Code:

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#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>

int main( void )
{
    using namespace
        std;
    for( int ch = 0; ch < 128; ++ch )
    {
        cout << setw( 3 ) << dec << ch << " : ";
        if( isprint( ch ) && !isspace( ch ) )
            cout << "'" << char( ch ) << "'";
        else
            cout << "0x" << hex << ch;
        cout << endl;   
    }
    return 0;
}

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thanks for the code sebastiani, i'll try investigating it :P