Tuesday, November 20

BASIC Character set

The set of different characters that can be used to form different BASIC statements as BASIC character set.
The BASIC characters set is divided into three categories. They are :
1. Alphabetic characters
2. Numeric characters 
3. Special characters

Table C 1.1 
Special Characters used in BASIC
S.No. Symbol                   Purpose
1.       +                             addition or plus sign
2.       *                              multiplication sign
3.       -                              subtraction sign (hyphen)
4.      /                               division sign (also called the slash)
5.     ^                               exponentiation sign
6.      (                               opening bracket (left parenthesis)
7.      )                               closing bracket (right parenthesis)
8.     %                               percentage sign
9.     #                                hash sign
10.   !                                 exclamation sign
11.   $                                dollar sign
12.   .                                 period or decimal point 
13.   ,                                 comma sign
14.   "                                double quote
15.   '                                 single quote
16.  @                               at- the- rate-of sign
17   \                                  back slash sign
18.  :                                  colon sign
19.  ;                                  semi - colon sign  
20.  <                                 less than 
21.  >                                 greater than
22.  =                                 equal to 
23.  ?                                 question mark
24.  &                               ampersand sign
25.                                    blank
26.  [                                 opening square bracket 
27.  ]                                 closing square bracket

1. Alphabetic characters :
The alphabetic characters that are used by BASIC are :
A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J,K,L,M,N,O,P,Q,R,S,T,U,V,W,X,Y,Z.

2. Numeric characters :
The numeric characters (or symbols) that can be used in BASIC are 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 and 9.    

3.Special characters :
The special characters (Symbols) that are used in BASIC are shown in the Table C 1.1 above.  
                                     

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