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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: 4 Mar 91 16:40:22 GMT
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In article <875@oliver.SUBLINK.ORG> newsuser@oliver.SUBLINK.ORG (Ugo Cei) writes:
>I think Richard is right on this one. What he was saying is that the
>*compiler* is likely to treat "\%" as "%". Obviously, when *printf*
>sees it, it does not know what to do and so it is likely to print
>nothing at all. This is true under SCO's rcc, MSC 5.1 and gcc 1.39
>(which indeed gives a warning : "unknown escape sequence `\%'").
>The following line of code will print the `%' under any of the three
>mentioned compilers. (I presume Sun cc will do the same.)
>
Ok, I'll give ya that one.  :-)

Dean
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