From Quora: What is the difference between new line\n and carriage return\r in ‘c’ language?

Answer:
Anser by Balagopal Komarath

These are characters in the ASCII character set and are not specific to C.

A newline character ‘\n’ moves the cursor to the beginning of the next line.

A carriage return ‘\r’ moves the cursor to the beginning of the current line.

Try executing the following program.

int main()

{

    printf("This is a line.\r");

    printf("overwrite.\n");

}


It prints "overwrite.line." on a line by itself on the console.