print % in c

[Dean Cookson]

In article <875 at oliver.SUBLINK.ORG> newsuser at 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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