Tag: special character

Any character is entered through the keyboard, write a C program to determine whether the character entered is a capital letter, a small case letter, a digit or a special symbol.

The following table shows the range of ASCII values for various characters:
Character A – Z : ASCII Value 65 – 90
Character a – z : ASCII Value 97 – 122
Character 0 – 9 : ASCII Value 48 – 57
Special Symbol : ASCII Value 0 – 47, 58 – 64, 91 – 96, 123 – 127

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Expected Output for the Input

User Input:
Enter a Character
$

Output:
$ is a Special Character

Video Tutorial: C Program To Check For Alphabet, Number or Special Symbol

Source Code: C Program To Check For Alphabet, Number and Special Symbol

#include

int main()
{
    char ch;

    printf("Enter a Character\n");
    scanf("%c", &ch);

    if(ch >= 65 && ch = 97 && ch = 48 && ch = 0  && ch = 58 && ch = 91 && ch = 123 && ch 
Output 1:

Enter a Character

A

A is an Uppercase Alphabet
Output 2:

Enter a Character

i

i is an lowercase Alphabet
Output 3:

Enter a Character

8

8 is a Number
Output 4:

Enter a Character

$

$ is a Special Character
Logic To Check For Alphabet, Number and Special Symbol
We use &&(AND) operator check check for range. i.e., for number, we check from the range 48 to 57. To check if the user entered character lies in this range we use (ch >= 48 && ch 



(ch >= 0  && ch 
(ch >= 58 && ch 
(ch >= 91 && ch 
(ch >= 123 && ch 

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