Chapter 8.2, Problem 8.3CP

Explanation of Solution

Char data type:

• • A string data type is used to store a text, which is a collection of characters.
• • Similarly, char data type is used to store single character which means a variable of the char data type can hold only one character.
• • Declaration:

char lastLetter;

• • The character literals are enclosed in single quotation marks.
• • Therefore, a string value cannot be stored in a char data type.

Code snippet to store the last character in a string:

//declaring the string and char variables

string alphabet;

char last...