Overview of C 3
1.3.2 Character Data Type (char)
It is a non-numeric data type consisting of single alphanumeric character enclosed between a pair of
apostrophes, i.e., single quotation marks.
Examples of valid character type are:
‘A’
‘N’
‘*’
‘7’
It may be noted that the character ‘7’ is different from the numeric value 7. In fact, former is of type
char and later of type int. Each character has a numeric code, i.e., the ASCII code. For instance, the
ASCII code for the character ‘A’ is 65 and that of ‘*’ is 42. A table of ASCII codes is given in Appendix A.
A character data type is referred to as char. It is stored in one ...