Thread: 2 very noob questions

\n is just another character that printf() doesn't care about and doesn't do anything special with. What you may be confusing this with is how file are buffered. Output/Input can be delayed until the file is closed or until a "\n" is printed. stdio works this way, though I'm not sure if stdout does. (You can fflush(stdout); if needed...) Besides, there is no good reason for printf to specially treat or dislike a \n.

You can always read the manual on printf, which never mentions \n. Nor does anything I can find.

Code:

 if((string = strchr(firstname, '\n') != NULL)

Should be obvious, but count your parentheses. You're one short.

Are you sure it isn't something like this?

Whether the last line requires a terminating new-line character is implementation-defined.

http://web.archive.org/web/200502070...aft.html#4.9.2

I'd rather not -- I've been a bit distracted lately. How about this?

Basically I always try to ensure that the last output of a program ends in a newline, and that I fflush(stdout) when I want to see a prompt without a newline (aided by a preferred environment that does not display them otherwise).