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Characteristics & character set of C language





CHARACTERISTICS OF C




I.                    C is flexible, high level, structured programming language.
II.                  C include many low-level features that are normally available only in assembly or machine language.
III.                C programs are very concise due to the large number of operations within the language.
IV.                C works well with micro-computers.
V.                  C has a high degree of portability.



CHARACTER SET OF C



C character set consists of upper and lower case alphabets, digits, special characters and with spaces. The alphabets and digits together continue the alphanumeric set. The character set is as follows :


Letters :
A – Z, a –z
Digits :
0 – 9
Special characters :
+   -  *  /  %  $  ,  .  :  ;      !  ~|  <  -  ?  &  ^  >  ()  []  {}  /  \  @ with space 
Characters :
Blank space, new line, formed feed, horizontal tab, carriage return


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