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KEYWORDS IN 'C'
C has 32 reserved keywords
Since keywords has specific meaning, we cannot use them as identifiers
all keywords are written in lowercase(small letters) letters

keywords

auto extern sizeof break float static

case for struct char goto switch

const if typedef continue int union

default long unsigned do register void

return double else while volatile short

enum signed sizeof

There is no need of learning these keywords.

Identifiers in C
They are used for naming variables, functions and arrays. which character sequences
constitute identifiers depends on the lexical grammar of the language. A common rule is
alphanumeric sequences, with underscore also allowed, and with the condition that it not
begin with a digit (to simplify lexing by avoiding confusing with integer literals) – so fun,
fun5, fuc_bars, _fun are allowed, but 1foo is not – this is the definition used in earlier
versions of C and C++, Python, and many other languages. Later versions of these
languages, along with many other modern languages, support almost all Unicode characters
in an identifier. However, a common restriction is not to permit whitespace characters and
language operators; this simplifies tokenization by making it free-form and context-free. For
example, forbidding + in identifiers due to its use as a binary operation means that a+b and
a + b can be tokenized the same, while if it were allowed, a+b would be an identifier, not an
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addition. Whitespace in identifier is particularly problematic, as if spaces are allowed in
identifiers, then a clause such as if rainy day then 1 is legal, with rainy day as an identifier,
but tokenizing this requires the phrasal context of being in the condition of an if clause.
Some languages do allow spaces in identifiers, however, such as ALGOL 68 and some
ALGOL variants – for example, the following is a valid statement: real half pi; which could be
entered as .real. half pi; (keywords are represented in boldface, concretely via stropping). In
ALGOL this was possible because keywords are syntactically differentiated, so there is no
risk of collision or ambiguity, spaces are eliminated during the line reconstruction phase,
and the source was processed via scannerless parsing, so lexing could be context-sensitive.

Identifiers Rules
alphabets ,digits, underscores and dollor signs are allowed
They should not return with an digit
First word should be letter
identifiers are case-censitive
which means(uppercase letter and lower case letter are two different thing)
eg: AVG and avg both will be consider as two different variables
keywords/reserved words cannot be used as variable
they may begin with underscore character

Some valid and invalid declarations

valid Invalid Reason

a 6a first character should not contain digits

func1 "func1" " character is not valid

Roll_no Roll-no "-" character is not valid

_salary emp salary even " " space charater is not allowed

func4 func-4 "-" is not allowed

fun long "long" is the keyword

identifiers

Further Concepts
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What are data types ?
What are Variables?
What are Constant?
what are Escape Sequences?
keyword 'const'
different types of declaring constants
Operators In C
Simple Practice Programs

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