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i am not using any chararcters in my program.<br />

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i am not using any chararcters in my program.


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Try doing a search for the single quote character &nbsp;'<br />
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Mine is near my enter key. &nbsp;It is possible you have hit it on occasion.
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Try doing a search for the single quote character  '

Mine is near my enter key.  It is possible you have hit it on occasion.

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ok a character did not mater. &nbsp;Just one thing. &nbsp;Why did that not show up as a parse error?
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ok a character did not mater.  Just one thing.  Why did that not show up as a parse error?

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You may not be *intending* to use any characters. However, the error message indicates that the compiler has come across a line that has a quote character in it. Since it doesn't find a second one, the compiler is constrained to assume that it is missing.<br />
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Quotes can sometimes be hard to see. If the compiler tells you what line the problem is on, it may be simpler to delete it and retype it.<br />

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You may not be *intending* to use any characters. However, the error message indicates that the compiler has come across a line that has a quote character in it. Since it doesn't find a second one, the compiler is constrained to assume that it is missing.

Quotes can sometimes be hard to see. If the compiler tells you what line the problem is on, it may be simpler to delete it and retype it.


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I'm not quite sure what you mean by &quot;parse error&quot;. Isn't &quot;unterminated character constant&quot; a parse error?<br />

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I'm not quite sure what you mean by "parse error". Isn't "unterminated character constant" a parse error?


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when I complied my programm i got this error three different times<br />
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unterminated character constant<br />
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i can not determine what it is.
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when I complied my programm i got this error three different times

unterminated character constant

i can not determine what it is.

what does this error mean

C is a general-purpose, imperative computer programming language, supporting structured programming, lexical variable scope and recursion, while a static type system prevents many unintended operations. By design, C provides constructs that map efficiently to typical machine instructions, so it has found lasting use in applications that had formerly been coded in assembly language, including operating systems as well as various application software for computers ranging from supercomputers to embedded systems. It is distinct from C++ (which has its roots in C) and C#, and many later languages have borrowed directly or indirectly from C.