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From: Bill Campbell <wjcampbe AT bechtel DOT com>
Subject: Re: what about the "\"
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To: Ole Winther <owsim AT emma DOT ruc DOT dk>
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Ole Winther wrote:
> 
> Well some small problems
> 
> I where trying this.
> 
> char* str;
> str = new char[5];
> strcpy( str, "C:\PT" );
> 
> and printing this gives ( C:PT  ), the "\" is stripped. when compiling the
> programs there complains about and unknown escape char. How to do it?
> 
> Ole Winther

Should this not be :
	strcpy( str, "C:\\PT"
since the single \ is read as \p (Escape p)

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