Thread: How to put quotes in fprintf statement

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    How to put quotes in fprintf statement

    I am writing text to an ascii file.

    I want the text to look like...

    "John", "Doe"

    I have two variables, fName and lName

    how to write my fprintf() statement so I get the quotes in my output file.

    Thanks.

    mashley.
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    You can do a backslash-quote to output a quote in your fprintf().

    fprintf(fp,"\"%s\" \"%s\"\n",fName,lName);

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    Thank you!
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