CR may refer to any of the following:

  1. Short for carriage return, CR is often used to represent a carriage return done by pressing the Enter and Return key.

How to write a carriage return

In programming languages such as C, Java, and Perl and regular expressions the return or CR character is represented as a \r escape sequence.

  1. The Internet domain suffix .cr is short for Costa Rica.

A carriage return is not the same as a newline or linefeed. However, the text CR may be combined with LF to form CR/LF or CRLF.

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