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From: mxmora@sri-unix.SRI.COM (Matt Mora)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: New Think C user
Message-ID: <21005@sri-unix.SRI.COM>
Date: 8 Feb 91 17:19:02 GMT
Reply-To: mxmora@sri-unix.sri.com (Matt Mora)
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
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I am a proud new owner of THINK C 4.0.2. Is there any goodies out there
that would make programming in this environment even more fun?

I'm looking for any INIT's,FKEYS, source code, headers,gotcha's  or any 
general information I should know about.


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?

Example:
Anytime you want to include a special character you preceede it with
a back slash.

 printf("this will beep\a");

 printf("this will tab\tthis part over");

 printf("you are %d years old.\n",age);

So you would think that since the percent sign is the mask in a string literal
that if a backslash was before it, the compiler would do the right thing.

 printf("this won't work %d\%percent",intrate);

This wll actually print out a pointer from who knows where.

 printf("this does work %d %%percent",intrate)

Just curious


Thanks

Matt

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