A character (or char) is used as a single letter that is printed onto the console

Character is classified as char in C# and is a variable used to store a single character.

It is much smaller than a string and will bring up an error message if it is given more than 1 letter.

Console.WriteLine('a');

A character can be recognised within the Console.WriteLine() command through only having ‘ ‘ not “”. This is what separates it from being a string to being a character.

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