From: cziwkga AT ulcc DOT ac DOT uk (Kevin Ashley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: what about the "\"
Date: 16 Dec 1996 13:04:28 GMT
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In article <32B457C8 DOT 4940 AT exis DOT net>, Joe Wright <wrightj AT exis DOT net> writes:
|>sherlock AT pratique DOT fr wrote:
|>> 

[Original question regarding loss of naked "\" in string, and a
  correct answer, snipped]

|>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
|>

Sorry, you're wrong Joe. Neither strcpy nor printf deal with escapes -
string escapes are dealt with at compile time, along with trigraphs and
concatenation of adjacent string constants.  
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