print % in c

[Peter da Silva]

In article <1991Feb25.180600.5004 at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> gordon at 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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