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    Is it ASCII value ?

    Please see this

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    in book It is shown value of H is 74 ....what is this value ?

    as per ASCII table value of H is 72

    book is wrong ?

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    Yes, your book is wrong.

    Almost every book published has errors.

    Even K&R -> Errata for The C Programming Language, Second Edition * GitHub
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    Quote Originally Posted by Stream View Post
    Please see this

    IMG_20170802_184645.jpg - Google Drive

    in book It is shown value of H is 74 ....what is this value ?

    as per ASCII table value of H is 72

    book is wrong ?
    Why do you care about the actual value of a char? The number could vary outside ASCII.

    For example:
    Code:
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <stdlib.h>
    
    int main(void)
    {
        const char ch='H';
        printf("H value is %d\n",ch);
    
        return EXIT_SUCCESS;
    }
    The code could be tried on different Compilers and OS's and you may get varied numbers.

    Also please check the header <ctype.h>.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ordak View Post
    Why do you care about the actual value of a char? The number could vary outside ASCII.

    For example:
    Code:
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <stdlib.h>
    
    int main(void)
    {
        const char ch='H';
        printf("H value is %d\n",ch);
    
        return EXIT_SUCCESS;
    }
    The code could be tried on different Compilers and OS's and you may get varied numbers.

    Also please check the header <ctype.h>.
    book does not say these are ASCII ... it just says "conversion"

    What do you think? these are ASCII ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stream View Post
    book does not say these are ASCII ... it just says "conversion"
    What do you think? these are ASCII ?
    Yes, it's ASCII, since all the other values match their ASCII values.
    Actually, today we would say that it is either ASCII or the UTF-8 encoding of UNICODE, the single-byte values of which correspond to ASCII (very convenient!).

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