A very stupid newbie question

**bradleym** · 09-13-2002

Hello all. I am brand new to C/C++, in fact I am taking a course on it as we speak.

I am hung up on our very first program and I need to make sure I'm not doing something stupid.

Basically, I can't get /n or /r to carriage return to a new line. Here is my code:

Code:

#include<stdio.h>

main()
{
     printf("Testing.../n..1/n...2/n....3/n");
}

[code tags added by ygfperson]
Pretty simple huh....

Now here is the output I receive:

Testing.../n..1/n...2/n....3/n

What am I doing wrong? I have tried compiling this in Vis C++ and in Devcpp 4.... I realize I'm new to this but it's gonna be a long class if I can't get past this!

TIA for your help!

**Fordy** · 09-13-2002

Try \n not /n

**bradleym** · 09-13-2002

Thank you kind sir. That's all it was.... Apparently my class notes were wrong!!!

**Shadow** · 09-13-2002

You could make it really fancy if you wanted:

Code:

#include <stdio.h>

int main ( void )
{
	int Counter;
	printf("Testing..\n");
	for ( Counter = 1; Counter < 4; Counter++ )
	{
		printf("%i\n", Counter);
	}
	return 0;
}

**datainjector** · 09-13-2002

Originally posted by Shadow
You could make it really fancy if you wanted:

Code:

#include <stdio.h> int main ( void ) { int Counter; printf("Testing..\n"); for ( Counter = 1; Counter < 4; Counter++ ) { printf("%i\n", Counter); } return 0; }

What is %i ..Used for integers????Never seen anything like that before??? I would like an explanation

DaIn

**Mister C** · 09-13-2002

%i is conversion specification for a signed decimal integer. Same as %d

Mr. C

**SIKCAR** · 09-14-2002

Oh just thought you would also want to know how to print out the backslash (\) character too
you just do \\
and \' to print out '
\" to print out "
\? to print out ?

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