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user5799707
user5799707

Reputation: 43

How to print a parenthesis in C with printf?

I am trying to print a parenthesis using: printf("\)"); However, it is giving me the following warning: warning: unknown escape sequence '\)'

I can't seem to find a clear explanation anywhere on how to fix this. I realize it's just a warning, but since it's still treating that as a parenthesis it's throwing off all my other parentheses and giving me errors so that the code does not compile.

EDIT: Treating it as a regular character and just saying printf(")") is not working. It's still mismatching all the parentheses and I have gone through multiple times to make sure I'm not actually missing any.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 28236

Answers (4)

Ashwin
Ashwin

Reputation: 1

Hope this helps.

Using variables seems to be a viable solution using my compiler.

#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
    char var = ')';
    printf("Hello, World!\n");
    printf("Success :%c",var); //As you can see this is one way to go about the problem
    return 0;
}

Upvotes: 0

rohit prakash
rohit prakash

Reputation: 575

just write parenthesis in double quote " " ,because parenthesis is not a escape character .

try this :

 #include<stdio.h>
 int main(){
 printf( "(  )" ); // print  parenthesis here
 }

Upvotes: 0

mikefaheysd
mikefaheysd

Reputation: 126

try this:

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
  printf("Printing quotation mark \")\" ");
}

you need to add an escape character to get the quote to print which in this case is \"

This will result in Printing quotation mark ")"

Upvotes: 2

Idos
Idos

Reputation: 15320

The warning is coming from the C compiler. It is telling you that \ is not a known escape sequence in C. You need to double-escape the slash, like so: \\

Edit: if you just want to print the parenthesis, i.e. the ) then drop the slash altogether and use:

printf(")");

Upvotes: 4

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