Single Character Constants

It is a single character constant which enclosed inside a pair of single quotes.

Example

'A'

'3'

'?'

';'

' '

Character constants have integer values that are called an ASCII values. For instance, the character constant '3' has an ASCII value of 83.Thus; that is not the similar as the integer value 3.  A few of the character constants and their corresponding ASCII values are: -

Constant        ASCII value

'a'                     97

'A'                    65

'&'                    38

';'                     59