Is space a character ?

Is space a character ?

No. Also, in addition to whitespace, tabs, linefeeds, newlines, etc. are generally considered 'space'.

Yes, a space literal (' ') is a character, or perhaps more precisely, a char literal.

Are the answers different?

No, Laserlight is correct. It's early, and for some reason I was thinking 'alphanumeric character'. :)

Yes, they are two different answers. Yes, space is a character. But depending on the circumstances, it may be "ignored" by functions and applications. Other times it is very much "used" or "meaningful".

As a part of the ascii character set, space is definitely a character, with the value 0x20 (32 decimal). Other character sets may use other values.

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Mats

So, space is a character

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Originally Posted by freddyvorhees

So, space is a character

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There certainly is a character in the character set that corresponds to space, yes. There are other "blank" characters, such as tab, newline, vertical tab, carriage return and possibly others.

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Mats

Nice. Thanks

For that matter, Unicode defines about 10 different space characters - space, n-width space, m-width space, zero-width non-joiner, non-breaking space, and more.