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From: law@qtc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Value of x?
Message-ID: <272@qtc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 1-Apr-87 12:22:36 EST
Article-I.D.: qtc.272
Posted: Wed Apr  1 12:22:36 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Apr-87 12:37:11 EST
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Reply-To: law@qtc.UUCP (Larry Westerman)
Organization: Quantitative Technology Corp, Beaverton, Oregon
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In article <6570@brl-adm.ARPA> @relay.cs.net> writes:
>bug.  I claim that '\x' is a perfectly fine representation of the 
>character x and should have value 120 base 10.  How sayeth INFO-C?

Kernighan and Ritchie, pg 181:

    If the character following a backslash is not one of those specified
    [in the table of valid escape sequences], the backslash is ignored.
                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

No more authoritative source exists on the planet (8-).

    


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