
1) Control character
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The null character (also null terminator), abbreviated NUL, is a control character with the value zero. It is present in many character sets, including ISO/IEC 646 (or ASCII), the C0 control code, the Universal Character Set (or Unicode), and EBCDIC. It is available in nearly all mainstream programming languages. The original meaning of this chara...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_character

a control character designed to fill in a portion of data medium or time interval and which may be inserted into or removed from a stream of characters without affecting the information content NOTE - The addition of the character may, however affect the data lay-out or the control of equipment.
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