What is a character constant? Give an example.

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Concept understanding — Constants in C

A constant is a value that is fixed and does not change while the program runs. C constants fall into two broad families.

Numeric constants represent numbers:

Integer constants - whole numbers with no decimal point, e.g. 100, -25.
Real (floating) constants - numbers with a decimal point or an exponent, e.g. 3.14 or 0.1234e-4.

Non-numeric constants represent characters and text:

Character constant - a single character enclosed in single quotes, e.g. 'A' or '='. Each character has a numeric ASCII value (for example the character '=' has the ASCII code 61).
String constant - a sequence of characters enclosed in double quotes, e.g. "BANGALORE". …

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A character constant is one character in single quotes, for example 'A'.

A character constant is a single character written within single quotation marks, such as 'A', 'z', '9' or '+'. Internally it is stored as the ASCII code (an integer) of that character; for example 'A' is stored as 65. Only one character is allowed betw …

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