What Is an ASCII File?

September 27, 2022

An ASCII file is a document that contains only raw text made up of ASCII-supported characters. The ASCII standard includes 128 distinct characters, each represented by a 7-bit value (a string of seven 0s or 1s). Common examples of ASCII data are HTML files, anything you write in Notepad, batch files, and XML data.

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