Carriage return in C

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Output of Following program is   hai    I didn t get how the  r carriage return works in this program and in real can any one help me out     include  lt stdio h gt   include lt conio h gt   void main         printf   nab        printf   bsi        printf   rha         getch

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From 5 2 2 2  character display semantics         b  backspace  Moves the active   position to the previous position on   the current line  If the active   position is at the initial position of   a line  the behavior of the display   device is unspecified        n  new line  Moves the active   position to the initial position of   the next line        r  carriage return  Moves the active   position to the initial position of   the current line    Here  your code produces      lt new line gt ab  b   back one character write si   overrides the b with s  producing asi on the second line   r   back at the beginning of the current line write ha   overrides the first two characters  producing hai on the second line    In the end  the output is     nhai

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Step-by-step    newline ab  ab    backspace si  asi    carriage-return ha  hai   Carriage return  does not cause a newline   Under some circumstances a single CR or LF may be translated to a CR-LF pair   This is console and or stream dependent

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Program prints ab  goes back one character and prints si overwriting the b resulting asi  Carriage return returns the caret to the first column of the current line  That means the ha will be printed over as and the result is hai

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