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Re: OT: Escaping %s



On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 11:29 +0200, ocl wrote:
> 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");

Have you tried escaping the %?  I.e.: \%

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