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From: brianh@hpcvia.CV.HP.COM (brian_helterline)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: print % in c
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Date: 25 Feb 91 17:05:02 GMT
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haozhou@acsu.buffalo.edu (Hao Zhou) writes:
>since % and \ are recognized as special characters in printf, how do
>you print out such kind special chars using printf?

Any character following a \ will be taken literally so just preceed
any "special" char with a \ so:

	printf( "This is a slash \\ and a precent sign \%\n" )

would produce: This is a slash \ and a percent sign %