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C – Keywords & Identifiers

C Keywords & Identifiers

Topic:- This tutorial will help you to learn about keywords, reserved keywords in C programming. Also, understand the identifiers and how to name a variable.

What are C Keywords

A keyword is a reserved keyword by C programming language. These are predefined in compiler have special meaning. You can’t use any keyword as a variable name, function name etc.

Example: The int is a keyword.

int userId;

What are C Identifiers

An Identifiers is C programming language can be a variable name, function name, array name or structures. All the identifiers must be unique in any programme.

For example, The int is a keyword and userId is an identifier.

int userId;

List of C Keywords

There are total 32 keywords available in C programming language. Please find below list:

auto
break
case
char
char
const
continue
default
do
double
else
enum
extern
float
for
goto
if
int
long
register
return
short
signed
sizeof
while
struct
switch
typedef
union
unsigned
void
volatile