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C - Basic Syntax

You have seen the basic structure of a C program, so it will be easy to


understand other basic building blocks of the C programming language.
Tokens in C
A C program consists of various tokens and a token is either a keyword, an
identifier, a constant, a string literal, or a symbol.
For example, the following C statement consists of five tokens −
printf("Hello, World! \n");
printf("Hello, World! \n");
The individual tokens are −
Semicolons
In a C program, the semicolon is a statement terminator. That is, each
individual statement must be ended with a semicolon. It indicates the end
of one logical entity.
Given below are two different statements −
printf("Hello, World! \n");
return 0;
C - Basic Syntax…
• Comments
• Comments are like helping text in your C program and they are ignored by the
compiler. They start with /* and terminate with the characters */ as shown
below −
/* my first program in C */
• Identifiers
• A C identifier is a name used to identify a variable, function, or any other user-
defined item. An identifier starts with a letter A to Z, a to z, or an underscore '_'
followed by zero or more letters, underscores, and digits 0to9 .
• C does not allow punctuation characters such as @, $, and % within identifiers.

• C is a case-sensitive programming language. Thus, Manpower and manpower


are two different identifiers in C. Here are some examples of acceptable
identifiers −
• mohd zara abc move_name a_123myname50 _temp j a23b9
retVal
Keywords
The following list shows the reserved words in C. These
reserved words may not be used as constants or
variables or any other identifier names.
auto else long switch

break enum register typedef

case extern return union

char float short unsigned

const for signed void

continue goto sizeof volatile

default if static while

do int struct _Packed

double
Whitespace in C

• A line containing only whitespace, possibly with a comment, is known


as a blank line, and a C compiler totally ignores it.

• Whitespace is the term used in C to describe blanks, tabs, newline


characters and comments. Whitespace separates one part of a
statement from another and enables the compiler to identify where one
element in a statement, such as int, ends and the next element begins.
• Therefore, in the following statement −
• int age; there must be at least one whitespace character usually a space
between int and age for the compiler to be able to distinguish them. On
the other hand, in the following statement −

• fruit = apples + oranges; // get the total fruit no whitespace characters


are necessary between fruit and =, or between = and apples, although
you are free to include some if you wish to increase readability.

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