Multi-character characters?

[Ulnarian]

Is there a way to make the following possible with only a character type?

char ch='10';


Thanks

[Speedo]

No. You want two characters - you need space to store both. It's like asking if it's possible to fit two cars into a single parking space (at least without destroying the cars).

The typical way of storing multiple characters for a c-style string is with a char*, as in

const char* ch = "10";

[Twey]

Perhaps you mean

char ch = '\10';

? Note that that's in octal; if you wanted a newline, you'd have to write '\12' (or simply '\n').

[Etherous]

I know it's possible to define a four character literal, like 'abcd', which could then be held in a 32bit integer. Two characters would probably do something similar

[AmadeusAD]

Why don't you try to experiment yourself writing something like

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
  char t = '10'; // compiler probably will warn you, but compilation will not fail
  putchar(t);
  printf("\ncontent = 0x&#37;X\n", t); // here you will see that yes, it is possible, but the value is truncated to sizeof, as expected
  return 0;
}