Assigning multiple characters in an int in C language
Last Updated : 30 Apr, 2018
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Consider the following C program.C Output :C
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void)
{
int a = 'd';
printf("%d\n", a);
/*OUTPUT - 100 (ASCII Code for character d)*/
int b = 'dd';
printf("%d", b);
/*OUTPUT - 25700 (Explanation in detail given below)*/
return 0;
}
100 25700We can easily guess that the output for 'd' is 100 as 100 is ASCII value of character 'd'. Let us consider below line
int a = 'dd'(%d, a) prints 25700 as output 01100100 01100100 (Binary of 100 100) Assuming int is of 2 bytes, starting byte is occupied by first character 'd' and second byte by second character 'd'. Therefore overall binary involves 0110010001100100 i.e 2^14 + 2^13 + 2^10 + 2^6 + 2^5 + 2^2 = 25700. Now guess the output of following code.
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void)
{
int b = 'de';
printf("%d", b);
return 0;
}