Printing ASCII Characters in C [ASCII Table]

What is an ASCII Character?

ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is a character encoding standard that represents characters (such as letters, numbers, and symbols) as numbers between 0 and 127. ASCII codes are used to represent text in computers and other devices.

It is a 7-bit character code where each individual bit represents a unique character. So a maximum of 128 characters are represented in ASCII Standard which first 32 are control characters which were designed to control computer hardware. These are the standard characters used for most computer systems.

List of all ASCII Characters with description

ASCII Character	Numeric Code	Description
	0 – 31	Control characters
	32	Space character
!	33	exclamation mark
“	34	quotation mark
#	35	number sign
$	36	dollar currency sign
%	37	percent sign
&	38	Ampersand (also used as and)
‘	39	Apostrophe (also known as single quote)
(	40	left parenthesis
)	41	right parenthesis
*	42	asterisk
+	43	plus sign
,	44	comma
–	45	hyphen
.	46	period
/	47	slash
0	48	number 0
1	49	number 1
2	50	number 2
3	51	number 3
4	52	number 4
5	53	number 5
6	54	number 6
7	55	number 7
8	56	number 8
9	57	number 9
:	58	colon
;	59	semicolon
<	60	less-than
=	61	equals-to
>	62	greater-than
?	63	question mark
@	64	at sign
A	65	uppercase letter A
B	66	uppercase letter B
C	67	uppercase letter C
D	68	uppercase letter D
E	69	uppercase letter E
F	70	uppercase letter F
G	71	uppercase letter G
H	72	uppercase letter H
I	73	uppercase letter I
J	74	uppercase letter J
K	75	uppercase letter K
L	76	uppercase letter L
M	77	uppercase letter M
N	78	uppercase letter N
O	79	uppercase letter O
P	80	uppercase letter P
Q	81	uppercase letter Q
R	82	uppercase letter R
S	83	uppercase letter S
T	84	uppercase letter T
U	85	uppercase letter U
V	86	uppercase letter V
W	87	uppercase letter W
X	88	uppercase letter X
Y	89	uppercase letter Y
Z	90	uppercase letter Z
[	91	left square bracket
\	92	backslash
]	93	right square bracket
^	94	caret
_	95	underscore
`	96	grave accent
a	97	lowercase letter a
b	98	lowercase letter b
c	99	lowercase letter c
d	100	lowercase letter d
e	101	lowercase letter e
f	102	lowercase letter f
g	103	lowercase letter g
h	104	lowercase letter h
i	105	lowercase letter i
j	106	lowercase letter j
k	107	lowercase letter k
l	108	lowercase letter l
m	109	lowercase letter m
n	110	lowercase letter n
o	111	lowercase letter o
p	112	lowercase letter p
q	113	lowercase letter q
r	114	lowercase letter r
s	115	lowercase letter s
t	116	lowercase letter t
u	117	lowercase letter u
v	118	lowercase letter v
w	119	lowercase letter w
x	120	lowercase letter x
y	121	lowercase letter y
z	122	lowercase letter z
{	123	left curly brace
\|	124	vertical bar (also known as pipe sign)
}	125	right curly brace
~	126	Tilde sign

C Program to print ASCII Characters

The following program prints out the numerical codes of the printable or visible ASCII characters. This C program prints ASCII values of all the alphabets and special characters. This is very handy C function for many programmers.

#include <stdio.h>

int main(){
    int c;
    printf("\tCharacter\tCode\n\t---------\t----\n");
    for (c=32; c<127; c++){
        printf("\t %c \t\t%4d\n", c, c);
    }
}

#include <stdio.h>

int main(){

int c;

printf("\tCharacter\tCode\n\t---------\t----\n");

for (c=32; c<127; c++){

printf("\t %c \t\t%4d\n", c, c);

}

Output of the C Program:

	Character	Code
	---------	----
	   		  32
	 ! 		  33
	 " 		  34
	 # 		  35
	 $ 		  36
	 % 		  37
	 & 		  38
	 ' 		  39
	 ( 		  40
	 ) 		  41
	 * 		  42
	 + 		  43
	 , 		  44
	 - 		  45
	 . 		  46
	 / 		  47
	 0 		  48
	 1 		  49
	 2 		  50
	 3 		  51
	 4 		  52
	 5 		  53
	 6 		  54
	 7 		  55
	 8 		  56
	 9 		  57
	 : 		  58
	 ; 		  59
	 < 		  60
	 = 		  61
	 > 		  62
	 ? 		  63
	 @ 		  64
	 A 		  65
	 B 		  66
	 C 		  67
	 D 		  68
	 E 		  69
	 F 		  70
	 G 		  71
	 H 		  72
	 I 		  73
	 J 		  74
	 K 		  75
	 L 		  76
	 M 		  77
	 N 		  78
	 O 		  79
	 P 		  80
	 Q 		  81
	 R 		  82
	 S 		  83
	 T 		  84
	 U 		  85
	 V 		  86
	 W 		  87
	 X 		  88
	 Y 		  89
	 Z 		  90
	 [ 		  91
	 \ 		  92
	 ] 		  93
	 ^ 		  94
	 _ 		  95
	 ` 		  96
	 a 		  97
	 b 		  98
	 c 		  99
	 d 		 100
	 e 		 101
	 f 		 102
	 g 		 103
	 h 		 104
	 i 		 105
	 j 		 106
	 k 		 107
	 l 		 108
	 m 		 109
	 n 		 110
	 o 		 111
	 p 		 112
	 q 		 113
	 r 		 114
	 s 		 115
	 t 		 116
	 u 		 117
	 v 		 118
	 w 		 119
	 x 		 120
	 y 		 121
	 z 		 122
	 { 		 123
	 | 		 124
	 } 		 125
	 ~ 		 126

Character Code

--------- ----

! 33

" 34

# 35

$ 36

% 37

& 38

' 39

( 40

) 41

* 42

+ 43

, 44

- 45

. 46

/ 47

0 48

1 49

2 50

3 51

4 52

5 53

6 54

7 55

8 56

9 57

: 58

; 59

< 60

= 61

> 62

? 63

@ 64

A 65

B 66

C 67

D 68

E 69

F 70

G 71

H 72

I 73

J 74

K 75

L 76

M 77

N 78

O 79

P 80

Q 81

R 82

S 83

T 84

U 85

V 86

W 87

X 88

Y 89

Z 90

[ 91

\ 92

] 93

^ 94

_ 95

` 96

a 97

b 98

c 99

d 100

e 101

f 102

g 103

h 104

i 105

j 106

k 107

l 108

m 109

n 110

o 111

p 112

q 113

r 114

s 115

t 116

u 117

v 118

w 119

x 120

y 121

z 122

{ 123

| 124

} 125

~ 126

Printing ASCII Characters in C [ASCII Table]

What is an ASCII Character?

List of all ASCII Characters with description

C Program to print ASCII Characters

About The Author

M. Saqib

Printing ASCII Characters in C [ASCII Table]

What is an ASCII Character?

List of all ASCII Characters with description

C Program to print ASCII Characters

About The Author

M. Saqib

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