As every language contains a set of characters used to construct words, statements etc., C language also has a set of characters which include alphabets, digits and special symbols. C language supports a total of 256 characters.
Every C program contain statements. These statements are constructed using words and these words are constructed using characters from C character set contains the following set of characters…
1. Alphabets
2. Digits
3. Special Symbols
1. Alphabets:
C language supports all the alphabets from English language. Lower and upper case letters together supports 52 alphabets.
lower case letters -a to z
UPPER CASE LETTERS -A to Z
2. Digits:
C language supports 10 digits which are used to construct numerical values in C language.
Digits -0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
3. Special Symbols:
C language supports rich set of special symbols that includes symbols to perform mathematical operation, to check conditions, white spaces, back spaces and other special symbols.
Special symbols – ~ @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _ – + = { } [ ] ; : / ? . > < | \ tab newline space NULL bell backspace verticaltab etc.,
Every character in C language has its equivalent ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) value.