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(Packing Characters into Unsigned Integers) The left-shift operator can be used to pack two character values into a two-byte unsigned integer variable. Write a program that inputs two charac-ters from the keyboard and passes them to function packCharacters. To pack two characters intoan unsigned integer variable, assign the first character to the unsigned variable, shift the unsignedvariable left by 8 bit positions and combine the unsigned variable with the second character usingthe bitwise inclusive-OR operator. The program should output the characters in their bit formatbefore and after they're packed into the unsigned integer to prove that they're in fact packed cor-rectly in the unsigned variable.