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C Keywords and Identifiers - Codiens

Keywords are the reserved words of programming languages which has a specific feature associated with them. The meaning of these reserved words has already been explained to the C compiler. So that’s why we can’t use these words as a variable or an identifier name.

All those words that help us use the C programming functionality are included in the list of keywords. 

There are a total of 44 keywords in C11. Starting 32 keywords of C11 are taken from ANSI C and 5 keywords from C99.