Monday, 24 June 2013

interger,floating point,character constants

interger constants:
integer constants take one of the following forms:
  • a decimal number e.g 1,123,100002.
  • an octal number e.g.,01,01273,0303242.anoctal constant is introduced by a leading 0 and the digits are 0 through 7
  • a hexadecimal number e.g.,0X1,0X7b,0X186A2.a hex constant is introduced by a leading 0Xor 0x and the digits are 0 trough 9 followed by a through F
  • a character constant
Floating point constants:
floating point constants take one of the following forms:
  • a decimal number followed by a decimal point followed by another decimal number e.g.,1.0,1.9993,3.42
  • a number like the previous but with an exponent part i.e  an e or E followed by a decimal number e.g 1.0e10,1.23e-2,1.00e+2
character constant:
  • A character constant is a character enclosed in single quotes e.g, 'a','2'
  • in a character constant a backslash character is treated specially it introduces an escape sequence
  • these escape sequences are usually used to represent characters that are not easy to see when represented by themselves or need to be escaped for syntax reason

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