ASCII Character ^
Caret - circumflexCaret is the name used familiarly for the character ^, provided on most QWERTY keyboards by typing ⇧ Shift+6. The symbol has a variety of uses in programming and mathematics. The name "caret" arose from its visual similarity to the original proofreader's caret, a mark used in proofreading to indicate where a punctuation mark, word, or phrase should be inserted into a document. The formal ASCII standard (X3.64.1977) calls it a "circumflex". The incorporation of the circumflex symbol into ASCII is a consequence of this prior existence on typewriters.
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ASCII Code for ^
These are the code points for caret - circumflex in various character setsUnicode for ^
The character for caret - circumflex is mapped in Unicode as U+005E| Unicode | U+005E | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode Decimal | 94 | |
| Unicode Escape | \u005e | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0x5E | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 01011110 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | ||
| 01011110 | ||
| UTF-16 | 0x005E | |
| UTF-32 | 0x0000005E | |
HTML Entities for ^
The following HTML entities can be used to represent the caret - circumflex in HTML| HTML Number | ^ | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML Hex | ^ | |
| HTML Entity | ^ | |
Encoding
Encoding non-standard letters and characters into values that can be displayed e.g. in browsers| URL Escape Code | %5E | |
|---|---|---|
| Quoted-printable | =5E |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u005E" | |
|---|---|---|
| CSS Code | \005E | |
| JavaScript | "\u005E" | |
| Perl | \x{005E} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u005E" | |
| Python 3 | \u005E | |
| Ruby | \u{005E} |