title: How to assign special characters to a variable in C?
body: <p>How to assign a special character to a variable in C?
  I am trying to assign variable symbol a character like ~~~~~ or @@@@@ or ***** or ;;;;;;.
  What I did was<code>char symbol = "~~~~~~~~~~";</code>
  but this did not work, so I tried to change double quotes to single like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>char symbol = '@@@@@@@@@';
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but this did not work either;</p>