Absolute Beginner's Guide to Programming, Third Edition

C Data

C supports data formats that work much like Visual Basic's data formats. For example, C supports the following kinds of data:

• A single text character

• Integers

• Floating-points (decimal numbers)

C supports several types of integers and floating-point data such as long and short integers as well as single-precision and double-precision floating-point decimal data. Unlike Visual Basic, C does not support a string data type. Although C has some built-in functionality to handle strings in some situations, generally the C language leaves it to the programmer and functions to handle strings. C doesn't support an intrinsic string data type. Therefore, the only text-based data type that C supports is a single character.

All of C's character literals ...