NIELIT Scientist B 2020 November: 47

Question

The number of tokens in the following $C$ statement is

printf("i=%d, &i=%x", i, &i);

• A. $8$
• B. $4$
• C. $7$
• D. $10$

Answer 1

Token : matched with some pattern.

1. printf - matched with identifier pattern.
2. (  - matched with symbol ' ( '  pattern.
3. "i=%d, &i=%x"  - matched with string  pattern.
4. , - matched with symbol ' , '  pattern.
5. i  - matched with identifier pattern.
6. ,  - matched with symbol ' , '  pattern.
7. &  - matched with symbol ' & '  pattern.
8. i  - matched with identifier pattern.
9. )  - matched with symbol ' ) '  pattern.
10. ;  - matched with symbol ' ; '  pattern.

The total $10$ tokens.