Strange variable names?
Have you ever wondered what those strange variable names C programmers operate with really mean? Here's a list of some of the things they do to their variable names
Author: Jens G. BalchenPrefixes
| ch | character |
| cch | a count of characters |
| w | an unsigned integer (a WORD) |
| dw | an unsigned long integer (a double WORD) |
| n | an integer |
| a | an array |
| b | a byte |
| h | a handle |
| f | a flag (a Boolean value) |
| p | a pointer |
| lp | a long pointer (a pointer to a value outside the current segment) |
| sz | a zero terminated string (a C string) |
| lpfn | a long pointer to a function |
| i | an index into an array |
| cb | a count of bytes |
| LPCSTR | a long pointer to a constant string (one you can't change) |
| LPSTR | a long pointer to a string |
Last update: 2025-11-10
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