What is the difference between type casting and data type conversion? Please describe with example.

Question

I want to know the difference between type casting and data type conversion.

Answer 1

Type conversion is rather implicit and is taken care by the compiler whereas type casting has to be explicitly performed in order to change one data type to other.

Eg- Type conversion
int x = 10;
float f = x;

Eg- Type casting
float f = 10.25;
int x = (int) f;

Answer 2

Casting is a term describing syntax (hence the Syntactic meaning). Conversion is a term describing what actions are actually taken behind the scenes (and thus the Semantic meaning). A cast-expression is used to convert explicitly an expression to a given type.

Quote from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3166840/what-is-the-difference-between-casting-and-conversion