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Old 01-29-2008
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Originally Posted by JamesGoh View Post
So this is always the case (except for user-defined strings) in real world programming, even though individual ASCII characters (such as 5) have memory addresses ?
Yes ASCII characters have memory addresses though 5 is an integer not an ASCII character. To be intrepreted a character in C it needs to be in single quotes.

Code:
char v = '5';