Re-assining 'K' in var

Question

I have written a piece of code as following:

var i=5;
i='K';

The code is being compiled without an error. As far as my concept is concerned, I cannot re-assign a value in var. Since I have assigned integer 5 to i. the type of i is int. Then why it is allowing to assign a char 'K' in i?

possible duplicate of [C# char to int](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/239103/c-sharp-char-to-int) — Jehof, Jun 28 '12 at 06:12

Douglas · Answer 1 · 2012-06-27T18:39:15.240

Because a char can be implicitly cast to an int. The type of the variable i would still be int – you can test this using i.GetType() – and its value would be the codepoint of the character 'K' (namely, 75).

In other words, your code is equivalent to writing:

int i = 'K';

“As far as my concept is concerned, I cannot re-assign a value in var.” – That is not correct. You cannot change the type of an implicitly-typed variable (just like you cannot change the declared type of any other variable), but you are allowed to re-assign it another value of the same type (or one that may be cast as so).

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 27 '12 at 18:21

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i is implicitly typed as an integer during your first assignment. Then you are attempting to assign a char value to an integer.

answered Jun 27 '12 at 18:21

Dave New

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