Keywords in C | What are Keywords?

Keywords in C

In C Programming language, there are many rules so to avoid different types of errors. One of such rule is not able to declare variable names with auto, long, etc. This is all because these are keywords. Let us check all keywords in C language

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What are Keywords?

Keywords are predefined or reserved words that have special meanings to the compiler. These are part of the syntax and cannot be used as identifiers in the program. A list of keywords in C or reserved words in the C programming language are mentioned below

auto	break	case	char	const	continue	default	do
double	else	enum	extern	float	for	goto	if
int	long	register	return	short	signed	sizeof	static
struct	switch	typedef	union	unsigned	void	volatile	while

We will learn about all the C language keywords later