2. Character data type
The 'character' data type is able to store a single letter, number or symbol such as 'A', 'b', $, 4. These are symbols you will find on your keyboard.
Using the character data type is very efficient in terms of memory as a character is stored either in a single byte (8 bits) or a single word depending on the computer system.
In a computer language such as Python, you can assign a single letter to a variable:
FirstLetter = 'A'
Python knows that a single letter can be stored in a character data type, so there is no need to declare the fact beforehand.
In other languages such as VisualBasic, you declare the type before using it :-
Dim FirstLetter As Char FirstLetter = 'A'
In other languages such as Java, you can declare the type on the same line it is used :-
char FirstLetter = 'A'
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