How do I Printf a Semicolon between 2 bits of text ?

P D · Guest

Hi everyone,

How do I printf a Semicolon between 2 bits of text? i.e.

printf( "Here is the "problem" I have" );

I want to see :

Here is the "problem" I have

appear on my screen.

Thanks in advance, Question

Peter

P D · Guest

Sorry, Not Semicolon - I mean Inverted commas

Peter

wedilo · Joined: 16 Sep 2003 Posts: 71 Location: Moers, Germany

Hello P D,
Normally you can use the fprintf command with %c and append the char as ascii No. 34

But I think the following way with the Backslash is also possible.

34dez = 22hex

Ttelmah · Guest

Guest · Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 9:53 am

Hi,

I finally got

printf( "Here is the %Cproblem%C I have", 0x22, 0x22 );

to work

I think I tried the

printf( "Here is the '\x22'problem'\x22' I have" );

option but as soon as it saw the " it thought that was the end of the string and carried on to make nonsense of the rest.

I can't use ' as the " is part of a fixed protocol I am working on.

I will try all the others and see what works and which is the most compact.

Thanks for the help everyone,

Peter

Al · Joined: 13 Nov 2003 Posts: 28 Location: Belfast

This works for me and it is simple.

printf("\r\n the \"problem\" i am having"); Smile

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dgoldman · Joined: 24 Aug 2010 Posts: 7

Broken corner case to watch for:

#define FOO "D=1\""
printf(FOO);

doesn't work on PCWH 4.111. I think it is the double "".

To get this to work, change to
#define FOO "D=1\x22"
printf(FOO);

Wayne_ · Joined: 10 Oct 2007 Posts: 681

the \ is the escape char in C, if you escape a " e.g. "\"" then the compiler should ignore this as a start/end of string qualifier and just use it as a quote char.

printf ("Here is the \"problem\" I have");

Should work, if it does not then there is an error in the compiler.

To actually display a \ you would
printf("\\");

Gabriel · Joined: 03 Aug 2009 Posts: 1067 Location: Panama

This is what I used in my code: