Thread: problems with showing letters/symbols in cout (newbie)

Hello.
i got a problem with showing a "picture to ascii" if you could call it that my code is here:

Code:

// Windows
#include <iostream>
#include <windows.h>
using namespace std;


int main()
{
       cout << endl << "   *-------------------------------------------*";
       cout << endl << "   |__          __   _____                     |";
       cout << endl << "   |\ \        / /  |      \                   |";
       cout << endl << "   | \ \      / /   |   O   |                  |";
       cout << endl << "   |  \ \    / /    |    __/                   |";
       cout << endl << "   |   \ \  / /     | |\ \                     |";
       cout << endl << "   |    \ \/ /      | | \ \                    |";
       cout << endl << "   |     \__/       |_|  \_\                   |";
       cout << endl << "   *------------------------------------------*";

getchar();
}

now it's ........ed up again xD. Every time i run it, it shows wierd text and not "vr" like it's suopused to.

I know why this accours, at least i think. But is there any way i can prevent it? i have tried setting each line up in a string but it "........ed up" and my program chrased. I think some of the symbols in the line is bad for the cout.

BUT how do i make this thing, so it actually works ?

You need to escape the "\" with another "\", so when you wish to output a single "\", you have to output "\\".

Thank you man it worked! But what do you do with one \ exactly? is \ somekind of endl; ?

"\" is an escape character, that is, a character which results in an alternative interpretation of the following character(s). For more information, simply look up "Escape character" on Google.

Thanks (: