Can alphanumeric values be stored in an int data type or do we need a char to store it?
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Can alphanumeric values be stored in an int data type or do we need a char to store it?
Alphanumeric values are not values. They are numbers like everything else, but they follow a specified mapping numer -> character.
For example character ‘A’ is
65according to ASCII encoding. The only difference is how you treat them: if you treat them as numbers then you print out them as numbers, otherwise you print their encoding. Achardata type is just anintwhich has size of 1 byte. Just because 1 byte is enough to store the whole extended ASCII table. There is no real ‘character’ data type.Short answer: yes.