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Data Types

Data types in C include integers, real numbers, characters, and strings. Integers have several types like int and long that differ in size depending on the compiler and machine. Real numbers are represented using float and double types. Characters are represented using the char type and take 1 byte of storage. Strings are sequences of characters enclosed in double quotes.

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Data Types

Data types in C include integers, real numbers, characters, and strings. Integers have several types like int and long that differ in size depending on the compiler and machine. Real numbers are represented using float and double types. Characters are represented using the char type and take 1 byte of storage. Strings are sequences of characters enclosed in double quotes.

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Data Types

• A data type is a set of values and a set of


operations defined on these values
• Example: boolean type (not provided in C)
Values={true, false}
Operations={and, or, not}
Integers
• Examples: 2, 4567, 0, -100, 10200
• Operations + - / * %
• There are several types: int, long, unsigned, …
• Int values are in the interval [-32768, 32767]
• Long values are in [-2147843648, 2147483647]
• Size might differ between different compilers, OSs,
Machines
• Size of int = 2 bytes in Borland C++
• Size of int = 4 bytes in Visual C++
• Size of long = 4 byts
• Size of unsigned = 2 bytes
• Examples of integer values: population, number of odd
values in a certain range
Real Numbers
• Examples 2.23 4567.9 0 -100.1 3.449
• There are 2 types float, double
• Size of float = 4 bytes
• Size of double = 8 bytes
• float values can be large 3.4X1038
• float values can be small 3.4X10-38
• double values can be very small 1.7X10-308 and can be
very large 1.7X10308
• values are often expressed using e notation.
Examples: 2.3e+58 1.38888e-101 -4.5e200
• Example of real value: average of values
Characters
• Character data type is indicated by char
• Size of char value = 1 byte
• inside the program, char values are enclosed between single quotations
• Examples
‘a’ ‘b’ … ‘z’
‘A’ ‘B’ … ‘Z’
‘0’ ’1’ … ‘9’
‘>’ ‘<’ ‘+’ ‘%’ ‘@’ ’?’ ‘/’
‘\n’ new line character
‘\t’ tab character
‘\a’ alert or beep
‘\’’ single quote
‘\”’ double quote
‘\\’ inverted slash
Characters Cont.
• Comparisons can be performed on
characters:
‘A’ <‘B’< … <‘Z’<…< ‘a’ <‘b’ … <‘z’
• Characters are sorted according to their
order in the ascii code table
• Some ascii codes
‘A’ 65 ‘B’ 66 … ‘Z’ 90 ‘a’ 97 ‘b’ 98 …’z’ 122
Characters Internal
Representation
‘A’ (65)10 (01000001)2
‘B’ (66)10 (01000010)2
…
‘a’ (97)10 (01100001)2
‘b’ (98)10 (01100010)2
…
Strings
• Strings are used to represent names of entities
• A string is a sequence of characters enclosed
between double quotations
• Examples
“ali”
“Nablus”
“PO Box 3300”
“10423456”

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