Thread: printf removes \

Hey, i am trying to make a concole program, and i wish to have a sort of title:

PHP Code:

#####################################
#   _____       _             _____ #
#  / ____|     | |           / ____|#
# | |          | |          | |     #
# | |          | |          | |     #
# | |____   _  | |____   _  | |____ #
#  \_____| (_) |______| (_)  \_____|#
#                                   #
#  Command       Line         Chat  #
#                                   #
# By Michael Knights                #
##################################### 


i tryed using printf() to do this like so:

PHP Code:

  printf("\t\t\t ##########################\n"); 
  printf("\t\t\t #   _____        _                     _____     #\n"); 
  printf("\t\t\t #  / ____|       | |                   / ____|    #\n"); 
  printf("\t\t\t # | |                | |                  | |             #\n"); 
  printf("\t\t\t # | |                | |                  | |             #\n"); 
  printf("\t\t\t # | |____    _  | |____      _  | |____     #\n"); 
  printf("\t\t\t #  \_____| (_) |______| (_)  \_____|   #\n"); 
  printf("\t\t\t #                                                          #\n"); 
  printf("\t\t\t #  Command       Line         Chat          #\n"); 
  printf("\t\t\t #                                                          #\n"); 
  printf("\t\t\t # By Michael Knights                            #\n"); 
  printf("\t\t\t #########################\n"); 


my problem is that printf uses back slashes as indenifers for thing like tab and newline so all the \ in the asii art get removed when the program complies.

i was wondering if any of you smart people knew of another way to print the chartors to the screen with out lossing the \'s

Thanks.

Double up each "\" (i.e. "\\"). "\" is an escape character, so to escape itself (to ouput itself) you have to use two.

Thanks Man works Perfect now!