STEP 3

The primary distinction between a character and a string is that a character is a single letter, number, space, punctuation mark, or symbol that may be represented on a computer, whereas a string is a collection of characters.

The char data type in the C programming language can be used to store both character values and string values. In addition, the ASCII and Extended ASCII standards specify the characters that can be represented by a digital representation in a computer.

Let us look at some example of  Data Types their uses and examples in the table below:

Data Type	Used for	Example
String	Alphanumeric characters	hello world, Alice, Bob123
Integer	Whole numbers	7, 12, 999
Float (floating point)	Number with a decimal point	3.15, 9.06, 00.13
Character	Encoding text numerically	97 (in ASCII, 97 is a lower case 'a')
Boolean	Representing logical values	TRUE, FALSE