0x5E

0x5E is a hexadecimal integer literal. The prefix 0x indicates that the digits that follow are in base 16. The value of 0x5E is 94 in decimal, and its binary representation is 01011110. In many programming languages, 0x5E can be used directly as a numeric constant or as part of data literals.

In character encoding, 0x5E corresponds to the caret symbol ^, which has the Unicode code point U+005E. This character is printable and widely used in text, as well as in various syntaxes where it serves as a metacharacter. When text data is encoded in ASCII or UTF-8, the byte 0x5E represents this character.

Usage and context: hex literals like 0x5E are common in source code for specifying exact byte values, flags, or bitfields, and they frequently appear in debugging output, memory dumps, and network packets. The caret symbol itself has multiple roles across programming and markup: in some languages it denotes exponentiation in notations or serves as a metacharacter in regular expressions, while in many programming languages the bitwise XOR operator is represented by the caret symbol rather than by a numeric value.