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Re: OT: Escaping %s



On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 11:29:19 +0200, ocl writes:
>
>I am not a C programmer; all I am doing is to modify some source
>so that it is a little more helpful to the user.
>
>I want to display the following exact string to the user:
>
>date --date="Mon Jan 10 08:00:20 CET 2005" + "%s"
>
>When I use this
>
>printf("date --date=\"Mon Jan 10 08:00:20 CET 2005\" + \"%s\"\n");

In printf syntax, you should use %% to get a single % displayed.

`man 3 printf`

cheers,
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