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From: drh@duke.cs.duke.edu (D. Richard Hipp)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: print % in c
Message-ID: <667519758@romeo.cs.duke.edu>
Date: 25 Feb 91 22:09:19 GMT
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In article <1991Feb25.180600.5004@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon) writes:
>	To print special characters with printf(), precede the character
>with a \ character.  Example:
>
>	printf("This a percent sign: \%\n");
>	printf("This is a backslash: \\\n");

Nope.  John is wrong here.  To print a % using printf, put two %'s in
a row, like this:

        printf("This is a percent sign: %%\n");