C Language Tutorials by Ghulam Murtaza Dahar - HTML preview

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Output

Enter character: g

You entered g.

Conversion format string "%c" is used in case of characters.

ASCII code

When character is typed in the above program, the character itself is not recorded a numeric value(ASCII value) is stored. And when we displayed that value by using "%c", that character is displayed.

#include <stdio.h>

int main(){

char var1;

printf("Enter character: ");

scanf("%c",&var1);

printf("You entered %c.\n",var1);

/* \n prints the next line(performs work of enter). */

printf("ASCII value of %d",var1);

return 0;

}