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Introduction to characters in C

Character Constant:

Character constant is a single characters enclosed within the pair of single quotes (‘). It can contain alphabet, digit, special character and space.

Example

‘A’ , ‘5’ , ‘$’ etc.

Character Variable

Character variable is a variable of char data type.

Example : char gender;

Character Variable Initialization:

Character variable can be initialized just like variables of other data types.

Example: char gender=’F’;

Program for reading and displaying character variable.

#include<stdio.h>
int main()
{
char n;
printf(“\nEnter a character=”);
scanf(“%c”,&n);
printf(“\ncharacter=%c”,n);
return(0);
}

Output

Enter a character=k
character=k

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