C Program to print the ASCII value of a character.

C Program to print the value of a character.

• In C programming, a character variable stores the ASCII value rather than the character itself.
• The ASCII value represents the character variable in numbers, and each character variable is assigned with some unique number range from 0 to 127.
• For eg., the ASCII value of "A" is 65.

#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
  
    char ch;

    printf("Enter a character: ");
    scanf("%c", &ch);
    
    // %d displays the integer value of a character
    // %c displays the actual character

    printf("ASCII value of %c = %d", ch, ch);

    
    return 0;

}

OUTPUT

Enter a character: L
ASCII value of L = 76

Explanation:

• In the program, the user is asked to enter a character. The character is stored in variable ch.
• When the character is specified using %c format specifier then it will display the character itself.
• When a character is specified using %d format specifier then it will display the ASCII value of the respective character.