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From: jeffj@mcs213j.cs.umr.edu (Jeff Jenness)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Self-printing C program
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Date: 18 Sep 90 17:59:35 GMT
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In article <583@demott.COM> kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt) writes:
>>
>>Here is an example of what you are looking for:
>>
>>char p[]="char p[]=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}
>>
>
>    Real close, but there's no newline.

"printf" does not print a newline either!  The newline within the text just
delimits the original program line, it is not included as part of the program
text.  So in that case it will produce a duplicate of itself.


-- 
Jeff Jenness
University of Missouri - Rolla
jeffj@cs.umr.edu