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Comment by TACIXAT

1 month ago

A caret with a character subtracts 0x40 from its hex value allowing you to insert non-printable characters. Uppercase H is 0x48. That gives us hex 0x08 which is a backspace.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USASCII_code_chart.s...

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