What is Character Type - C Data Type

Introduction

You can specify the initial value for a variable of type char by a character constant.

A character constant is a character written between single quotes.

Here are some examples:

Demo Code

#include <stdio.h> 
  
int main(void) 
{ 
    char letter = 'A';
    char digit = '9';
    char exclamation = '!';

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    printf("The character is %c\n", exclamation);
  
    return 0; 
}

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Related Tutorials

• Does arithmetic operation on the value of type char
• Initialize a variable of type char with an integer value.
• Use an escape sequence between a pair of single quotes to specify a character constant
• Convert any uppercase letter that is lowercase
• Use toupper() and the tolower() functions to convert a character to uppercase and lowercase, respectively.