From: sherlock AT pratique DOT fr
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: what about the "\"
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 15:09:39 GMT
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owsim AT emma DOT ruc DOT dk (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

There are  two problems here:

- The character '\'  has special mening in C. You have to put it twice
to use it in strings constants.

the line would become : strcpy(str,"c:\\PT");

- You declare an array of five characters, and the length of the
string "C:\PT" is five characters PLUS the character '\0' needed at
the end of the string ie SIX characters.
strcpy will append it,  and probably will crash.

Hope this help