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From: garry@ceco.ceco.com (Garry Garrett)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: print % in c
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Date: 27 Feb 91 01:43:50 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");
> 
> 
> ---
> John Gordon
> Internet: gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu        #include <disclaimer.h>
>           gordon@cerl.cecer.army.mil       #include <clever_saying.h>

	Well, I don't think that \% is univeral.  (perhaps in later versions
of unix).  I know that 

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

will work.  In general, when a symbol has been used as a special symbol,
you can use that symbol by repeating it twice (%% or \\).  There are alot
of \_ symbols, but at least on my system \% is not one of them.

Garry Garrett