What is an argument ? differentiate between formal arguments and actual arguments?

An argument is an entity used to pass the data from calling funtion to the called funtion. Formal arguments are the arguments available in the funtion definition.They are preceded by their own data types.Actual arguments are available in the function call.

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venkatesh
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May 18th, 2006

The actual arguments are the arguments with which the function can be called. The formal arguments are the arguments with which the function can be defined.
Simply, function call contains actual arguments and functino defination contains formal arguments
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geetika mahajana

Oct 7th, 2011

FORMAL ARGUMENT :-The argument declared in function header is called formal argument......

ACTUAL ARGUMENT:- The argument passed to function while the function is called actual parameter.........