C Programming - Strings - Discussion
Discussion Forum : Strings - General Questions (Q.No. 3)
3.
How will you print \n on the screen?
Answer: Option
Explanation:
The statement printf("\\n"); prints '\n' on the screen.
Discussion:
23 comments Page 1 of 3.
Praveen Negalurmath said:
6 years ago
If u put printf("\\n");
It could have printed \, why does it prints \n? Anyone explain.
It could have printed \, why does it prints \n? Anyone explain.
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Shashank said:
1 decade ago
Give me specific reason about this answer. Why there is "\\" is used ?
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Vavilapalli sateesh said:
9 years ago
"\\n "means it gives the output to the user whereas in "\n"gives white space and leave some lines.
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Karthik saakre said:
1 decade ago
Actually, printf ("\n") : will skip a line leaving the current line.
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Sunny said:
2 decades ago
Great. Really good one example.
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Vinod said:
1 decade ago
This is verbatim string. Putting any special character after "\" sign ignoresthe next character for compilation.
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Srilakshmi said:
1 decade ago
By using printf("\n"); we get blankscreen as \n is a white space character but printf("\\n"); gives output as \n
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Venkatesh said:
10 years ago
\ is escape sequence escape after letter while compilation.
Priya said:
8 years ago
@Komal.
\\n is used for print\n
print("\\n")->it print \n
print("\\s")->it print \s
likewise it print.
\\n is used for print\n
print("\\n")->it print \n
print("\\s")->it print \s
likewise it print.
Komal more said:
8 years ago
Why there is "\\" used?
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