
2 Data Structures Using C
1.2 CHARACTERS USED IN C
The set of characters allowed in C consists of alphabets, digits, and special characters as listed below:
(i) Letters: Both upper case and lower case letters of English:
A, B, C, .... X, Y, and Z
a, b, c, .... x, y, and z
(ii) Decimal digits:
0, 1, 2, .... 7, 8, 9
(iii) Special characters:
! * 1 \ “ <<
#(5 ! {
%) ; “ /
^_ [ :, ?
&_ ]’ . blank
1.3 DATA TYPES
Every program specifies a set of operations to be done on some data in a particular sequence. However,
the data can be of many types such as a numbers, characters, floating points, etc. C supports ...