ASCII Table

To more of us than our industry might like to admit, ASCII can be a little confusing. So when I stumbled on this ASCII Table, I just had to share it with you folks. After giving a brief description of what ASCII is and why it is important to your computer, you get to dive head first into an ASCII Table that breaks it all down for you.

ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. Computers can only understand numbers, so an ASCII code is the numerical representation of a character such as ‘a’ or ‘@’ or an action of some sort. ASCII was developed a long time ago and now the non-printing characters are rarely used for their original purpose. Below is the ASCII character table and this includes descriptions of the first 32 non-printing characters.