Character Component — A Brief Summary

Range of values: ASCII characters (see the ASCII Character Set)

Initial value: '\0' (this two-character “escape sequence” denotes the null character)

Assignment operator: =

Relational operators:

== (equal)

!= (not equal)

< (less than and not equal)

<= (less than or equal)

> (greater than and not equal)

>= (greater than or equal)

Escape sequences:

'\n' newline

'\t' horizontal tab

'\\' backslash character

'\'' single quote-mark character

Input and output:

Assume that input is an object of type Character_IStream, that output is an object of type Character_OStream, and that c is an object of type Character.

· To input a value for c use input >> c.

· To output the value of c use output << c.

Conversion operators:

Assume that c is an object of type Character.

· To convert the value of c to a text string use To_Text (c).

· To convert the value of c to an integer use To_Integer (c).

Note: The value of To_Integer (c) is the ASCII code for the character c.