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From: hairston@henry.ECE.CMU.EDU (David Hairston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: New Think C user
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Date: 9 Feb 91 05:50:13 GMT
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[mxmora@sri-unix.sri.com (Matt Mora) writes:]
[] I have a beginning C programming question. This question came up in my 
[] C class and the instructor didn't now the anwser. Why do you have to use
[] a double percent sign in a string literal to have it print a percent sign 
[] when all logic would indicate that a backslash percent sign should work?

my guess, the '%' is interpreted before the '\' has a chance to
cancel it.  thus, the only way to escape '%''s is with an "operator"
of like precedence.

  -dave-  
hairston@henry.ece.cmu.edu