Why is 49, 50, 51, 52 stored in the array when I declare testArray[] = {'1','2','3','4','5'}? (C programming)

Question

Why is 49, 50, 51, 52 stored in the array when I declare testArray[] = {\'1\',\'2\',\'3\',\'4\',\'5\'}? How should i initialize a string array? Thanks

Answer 1

If you wanted an array of numeric values, it should have been initialized as {1,2,3,4,5}. Putting the numerals in single quotes means they are characters, and the 49, 50, 51,... you are seeing are the ASCII codes for the characters '1', '2', '3', '4'.