Character Literals and Quoted Strings

Individual characters used as data within a program are enclosed by apostrophes. Character strings can be enclosed within quotation marks or apostrophes. The character used to begin the enclosure must be used to terminate the enclosure. A single character enclosed within quotes is interpreted as a character string. A single character enclosed within apostrophes is interpreted as an integer.

Example:

trans()

{

int x;

char string[50];

x = 'a';

string = '"What," she said.';

/* ... */

string = "can’t";

/* ... */

}