From: Joe Wright <wrightj AT exis DOT net>
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Subject: Re: what about the "\"
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 14:55:52 -0500
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sherlock AT pratique DOT fr wrote:
> 
> owsim AT emma DOT ruc DOT dk (Ole Winther) wrote:
> 
> >Well some small problems
> 
> >I where trying this.
> 
> >char* str;
> >str = new char[5];
> >strcpy( str, "C:\PT" );
> 
> >and printing this gives ( C:PT  ), the "\" is stripped. when compiling the
> >programs there complains about and unknown escape char. How to do it?
> 
> >Ole Winther
> 
> There are  two problems here:
> 
> - The character '\'  has special mening in C. You have to put it twice
> to use it in strings constants.
> 
> the line would become : strcpy(str,"c:\\PT");
> 
> - You declare an array of five characters, and the length of the
> string "C:\PT" is five characters PLUS the character '\0' needed at
> the end of the string ie SIX characters.
> strcpy will append it,  and probably will crash.
> 
> Hope this help

Is it worth pointing out that strcpy() doesn't know anything about
escapes?
It is only when you give it to printf() that things go awry.

Joe Wright