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Chapter 7. Strings: Analyzing the Text > Individual Characters vs. Strings
Individual Characters vs. Strings
C++ makes a distinction between individual characters and strings. A lot depends on whether you use single or double quotation marks.
The expression ‘A’ represents a single character. During compilation, C++ replaces this expression with the ASCII value for a letter ‘A’, which happens to be 65 decimal.
