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From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: to "OR" or not to "OR"
Message-ID: <6036@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 30 May 91 05:43:01 GMT
References: <1991May28.191122.15749@ncsu.edu> <1991May28.210421.9656@unlv.edu> <RICHARD.91May29092137@lambda.iesd.auc.dk>
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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In article <RICHARD.91May29092137@lambda.iesd.auc.dk>, richard@iesd.auc.dk (Richard Flamsholt S0rensen) writes:
> >>>>> On 28 May 91 23:12:53 GMT, bliss@sp64.csrd.uiuc.edu (Brian Bliss) said:
> > What if I want to use the sequence "??!" within a string?
>   puts("Too bad - it is impossible to use ??""! in a string  :-)");

One method is to use string pasting:
	printf("Puzzled?" "?!  You don't need to be!\n");
That's also useful for terminating hex escapes.

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