char c = 'a';
'a' is a literal character, which assigns the value 0x61 (ASCII code 97 decimal) to the char variable c.
The following lines are therefore equivalent:
char a = 0x61;
char b = 97;
char c = 'a';
example: SELECT name, '*', address FROM table; Here '*' is a literal character.
In Java, a literal is the source code representation of a fixed value and are represented without requiring computation. The various types are Integer, Floating-Point, Character and String literals.
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In binary: 10100010 11101010 11010010 11011100 11011100 00000000 In hexadecimal: 0x5175696E6E00 10100010 = 0x51 = 'Q' (ASCII character code 81 decimal) 11101010 = 0x75 = 'u' (ASCII character code 117 decimal) 11010010 = 0x69 = 'i' (ASCII character code 105 decimal) 11011100 = 0x6E = 'n' (ASCII character code 110 decimal) 11011100 = 0x6E = 'n' (ASCII character code 110 decimal) 11011100 = 0x00 = 0 (ASCII character code 0 decimal - null-terminator)
'b' is a character literal. A character literal is a character enveloped in single quotes, just as a String literal is a String enveloped in double quotes (without the use of a constructor.)
Well, A is an identifier; 'A' is a character-literal; "A" is a string literal (of 1 character); "'A'" is another string literal (of 3 characters).
example: SELECT name, '*', address FROM table; Here '*' is a literal character.
a -- identifier 'a' -- character-literal "a" -- string-literal
In Java, a literal is the source code representation of a fixed value and are represented without requiring computation. The various types are Integer, Floating-Point, Character and String literals.
Character array (string literal).
A literal can be a number, a character, or a string. For example, in the expression, x = 3 x is a variable, and 3 is a literal.
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Literals are either numeric types (integers and floating point types), or character types. int i = 42; // literal integer double pi = 3.14; // literal floating point char c = 'x'; // literal character char s[] = "Hello world"; // literal string Note that you cannot take the address of a literal since there's no way to refer to it.
A group of character data, in SQL, is known as: Literal Values. This includes characters, numbers, or dates. Some prime examples of literal values are: dollars has a monthly salary of: January 1, 2009
The alt code for the invisible character is 225.
The character code for C is 'C'. Believe it or not, the compiler will automatically cast all literal characters to their equivalent character code so there's no need to remember every code by heart. However, the decimal equivalent of 'C' is character code 67, which is 43 in hexadecimal and 103 in octal. But using a literal char makes your code much that much easier to understand. consider the following code: bool compare(char ch) { return(ch==67); } Unless you happen to know that 67 is the character code for 'C', it's not exactly clear what this function does. bool compare(char ch) { return(ch=='C'); } Now it's patently obvious what it does. Note also that lower case character codes are always 32 decimal greater than their uppercase equivalent. Thus 'c' is character code 99 and therefore 99-67 is the same as saying 'c'-'C' (both expressions will evaluate to decimal 32). Therefore to convert character ch to uppercase, subtract 32 if 'a'<=ch and ch<='z'. To convert to lowercase, add 32 if 'A'<=ch and ch<='Z'. To remember the value 32, remember that it is the next power of 2 after 26 (the number of letters in the alphabet). 32 is also the character code for a single space (' ').