Data Types in C Programming

In C programming, you have to declare data types for variables during assignment or before assignment according to your desired operation. Data declaration determines the type and size of data associated with variables. In this tutorial, I will show you different data types  in C programming language.

Let’s see an example of variable declaration:

int x,y,z;
x=5;
y=5;
z=x+y;

int x,y;
x=5;
y=5;
int z=x+y;

 

Here’s a table containing commonly used data types in C program.

Type Size (Bytes) Format Specifier
int at least 2, usually 4 %d, %i
char 1 %c
float 4 %f
double 8 %lf
short int usually 2 %hd
unsigned int at least 2, usually 4 %u
long int at least 4, usually 8 %ld, %li
long long int at least 8 %lld, %lli
unsigned long int at least 4 %lu
unsigned long long int at least 8 %llu
signed char 1 %c
unsigned char 1 %c
long double at least 10, usually 12 or 16 %Lf

Click Operators in C to know  how to use operators in C programming language.

In this tutorial, I have shown different data types used in C program. Hope you have enjoyed the tutorial. If you want to get updated, like the facebook page http://www.facebook.com/freetechtrainer and stay connected.

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