C Character Set

 Every language  has some basic element and grammatical rules. Before programming in C, it is must to know the basic elements of the language. These basic elements are character set, variables, datatypes, constants, keywords (reserve word), variable declaration, expression statement etc. All of these are used to construct a C program.

C Character set 

The characters that are used in C programs are given below.

Uppercase and Lowercase letters

    A, B, C .................. Z

    a, b, c ..................... z

Digits

 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Graphic characters

Character	Name	Character	Name
+	Plus sign	-	Minus
*	Asterisk	%	Percentage sign
\	Backward slash	/	Forward slash
<	Less than	=	Equal to sign
>	Greater than sign	_	Underscore
(	Left parenthesis	)	Right parenthesis
{	Left braces	}	Right braces
[	Left bracket	]	Right bracket
,	Comma	.	Period
‘	Single quotes	“	Double quotes
:	Colon	;	Semicolon
?	Question mark	!	Exclamation sign
&	Ampersand	|	Vertical bar
~	Tilde sign	^	Caret sign
#	Hash

Whitespace characters

Space character, newline character, horizontal tab, vertical tab, and form feed.

Other characters

Alter, backspace, carriage return and null character.