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Varun Goenka
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Does a char variable have some default value? Like garbage value?
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Henry Wong
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Varun Goenka wrote:Does a char variable have some default value? Like garbage value?
The default value for a char is a nul character -- which has an ascii value of zero.
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Rob Spoor
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It's '\0', or simply 0 (as an integer literal).
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Campbell Ritchie
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That is the default value for a field; all fields have default values of 0, which is interpreted as the null character for a char, false for a boolean, and null for all reference types.
Local variables and parameters do not have default values at all.
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