Single quotes vs. double quotes in C or C++

Question

When should I use single quotes and double quotes in C or C++ programming?

Answer 1

I was poking around stuff like: int cc = 'cc'; It happens that it's basically a byte-wise copy to an integer. Hence the way to look at it is that 'cc' which is basically 2 c's are copied to lower 2 bytes of the integer cc. If you are looking for a trivia, then

printf("%d %d", 'c', 'cc'); would give:

99 25443

that's because 25443 = 99 + 256*99

So 'cc' is a multi-character constant and not a string.

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