Every programming language has its own set of characters which are used to write the statements of the program (source code). In C language also, a program is written by using a set of characters. These characters are known as alphabet or character set of C. The alphabet of C language is given below.
- Lowercase letters: a, b, c, ........, z
- Uppercase letters: A, B, C, ............, Z
- Digits: 0, 1, 2, ............, 9
- Special characters: +, -, /, =, (, ), [, ], {, }, <, >, ', ", !, @, #, $, %, \, /, ;
- White Spaces: blanks, new line, tab etc.