The C character set
C character set
A character set in C Programming Language is set of all valid character which is used to form a words, numbers and expression’s in source program.
The character set is fundamental raw material of any language and they are used to represent information like natural language, computer language will also have well defined Character set, that is useful to build the programs.
Now, in this section we learn about the type of the Character set and discuss about all type of it in brief.
Type of C character set
There are four type of character set in C programming.
- Alphabets
- Digit
- Special Character
- White space
Alphabets
Alphabets has a two case.- Upper case A-Z
- Lower case a-z.
Alphabets |
ASCII Code |
Alphabets |
ASCII Code |
| A | 65 | a | 97 |
| B | 66 | b | 98 |
| C | 67 | c | 99 |
| D | 68 | d | 100 |
| E | 69 | e | 101 |
| F | 70 | f | 102 |
| G | 71 | g | 103 |
| H | 72 | h | 104 |
| I | 73 | i | 105 |
| J | 74 | j | 106 |
| K | 75 | k | 107 |
| L | 76 | l | 108 |
| M | 77 | m | 109 |
| N | 78 | n | 110 |
| O | 79 | o | 111 |
| P | 80 | p | 112 |
| Q | 81 | q | 113 |
| R | 82 | r | 114 |
| S | 83 | s | 115 |
| T | 84 | t | 116 |
| U | 85 | u | 117 |
| V | 86 | v | 118 |
| W | 87 | w | 119 |
| X | 88 | x | 120 |
| Y | 89 | y | 121 |
| Z | 90 | z | 122 |
Digit
C programming support 10 digit which are used to construct numerical value.- Digit 0-9.
Alphabets |
ASCII Code |
| 0 | 48 |
| 1 | 49 |
| 2 | 50 |
| 3 | 51 |
| 4 | 52 |
| 5 | 53 |
| 6 | 54 |
| 7 | 55 |
| 8 | 56 |
| 9 | 57 |
Special character
C programming supports set of special symbols that include symbols to perform mathematical operation, check condition and other special symbol.- Special character %,&,*,etc.
Special Character |
ASCII Code |
Special Character |
ASCII Code |
| ~ | 126 | – | 45 |
| ! | 33 | _ | 95 |
| @ | 64 | + | 43 |
| # | 35 | = | 61 |
| $ | 36 | { | 123 |
| % | 37 | } | 125 |
| & | 38 | | | 124 |
| * | 42 | \ | 92 |
| ( | 40 | ; | 58 |
| ) | 41 | : | 59 |
| ‘ | 39 | / | 47 |
| “ | 34 | ? | 63 |
| < | 60 | > | 62 |
White space
In computer programming, white space is a character that represent vertical space in typography.- White space \b,\v,\? and so on.
White Space |
Meaning |
White Space |
Meaning |
| \b | blank space | \\ | back slash |
| \t | horizontal tab | \’ | single quote |
| \v | vertical tab | \” | double quote |
| \r | carriage return | \? | Question mark |
| \f | form feed | \0 | null |
| \n | new line | \a | alarm (bell) |
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