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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: print % in c
Message-ID: <B3Q9+01@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 25 Feb 91 22:22:34 GMT
References: <61516@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <1991Feb25.180600.5004@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
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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:

Backslash works on stuff interpreted by the compiler. % isn't one of them.

> 	printf("This a percent sign: \%\n");
No:	printf("This is a percent sign: %%\n");
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