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From: dean@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu (Dean Cookson)
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Subject: Re: print % in c
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Date: 25 Feb 91 23:29:00 GMT
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In article <31530035@hpcvia.CV.HP.COM> brianh@hpcvia.CV.HP.COM (brian_helterline) writes:
>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 %
Ahhh no.

What you want to do is:
printf("%%\n");

Which will print:
%


Is in K&R.

Dean


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