ya thats wat my doubt was...if its not a recognised escape sequence thn how
is it interpreted??
Would the compiler jst ignore ''\''?

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Ram CEG <[email protected]> wrote:

> op:abc.. \c is not an escape sequence
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:17 PM, aditi garg <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> what will be the output fr this??
>> printf("ab\c");
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 6:22 PM, swetha rahul <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Dipankar, Thanks!!!
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Dipankar Patro <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Swetha,
>>>>
>>>> '\' in C is used to denote a escape sequence in C strings (and also in
>>>> many other languages).
>>>> e.g '\n' is for New Line '\n' is counted as one character.
>>>> Now '\ooo' is for an ASCII in octal representation.
>>>> here is the list of all escape sequences:
>>>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/h21280bw(v=vs.80).aspx
>>>>
>>>> So for your string : "\12345s\n"
>>>> here '\123' is an ASCII in octal, hence one character.
>>>> rest you know about the characters: so length = '\123'(1) + 3 + '\n'(1)
>>>> = 5.
>>>>
>>>> I suggest you try with other combinations with '\' and print the output.
>>>> They will definitely show some weird stuffs :)
>>>>
>>>> Hope that helps.
>>>>   On 25 July 2011 22:53, swetha rahul <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>   char *s="\12345s\n";
>>>>> printf("\n %d",strlen(s));
>>>>>
>>>>> The output is 5...?? But how.??
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