1. INTRODUCTION TO CHARACTER SET OF ‘C’
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
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2. CHARACTER SET
Characters and symbols that a ‘C’ program can understand and accept.
Are grouped to form the commands, expressions, words, c-statements and other tokens for ‘C’ language.
A combination of alphabet or character, digit, special characters and white spaces.
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Letter
digit
Special character
Empty space character
3. CHARACTER SET CONSISTS OF
Letter or Alphabet
Are represented by A-Z or a-z.
Total 26 letters are used in C-programming.
C language is case sensitive so takes different meaning for lower and upper case letters.
Digit
Are represented by 0-9 or by combination of these digits.
Numeric data can be assigned to the C-tokens.
Total 10 digits are used.
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4. CHARACTER SET CONSISTS OF
Special characters
Keyboard keys except alphabets, digits and white spaces.
Some punctuation marks and some special symbols are used for special purpose.
Total 30 special characters.
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, comma
. Period
; semicolon
: colon
? Question mark
“ quotation mark
! Exclamation mark
| vertical bar
/ slash
backslash
~ tilde
_ underscore
$ dollar sign
% percent sign
& ampersand
^ caret
* Asterisk
- Minus
+ plus
< opening angle bracket
> Closing angle bracket
( left parenthesis
) right parenthesis
[ left bracket
] right bracket
{ left brace
} right brace
# number sign
= equal to sign
@ at the rate symbol
6. CHARACTER SET CONSISTS OF
Empty space character or White spaces
Blank space
Horizontal tab
Carriage return
New line
Form feed
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