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From: will.senn@gmail.com (Will Senn)
Subject: [TUHS] Literal character escapes in v7
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2017 22:21:12 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b72ba3f2-5f38-6194-4925-b3b9e0caf4b9@gmail.com> (raw)

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I wrote a snippet from my K&R C studies to convert tabs and backspaces 
to \t \b to display them, the code looks like this:

/* ex 1-8 */

main()
{
     int c, sf;

     while((c = getchar()) != EOF) {
         if(c == '\t')
             printf("\\t");
          if(c == '\b')
             printf("\\b");
         else
             putchar(c);
     }
}

I'm not looking for code review, but the code is intended to replace the 
tabs and backspaces with \t and \b respectively, but I haven't been able 
to test it because I can't seem to make a backspace character appear in 
input. In later unices, ^V followed by the backspace would work, but 
that's not part of v7. Backspace itself is my erase character, so 
anytime I just type it, it backspaces :).

Thanks,

Will

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             reply	other threads:[~2017-11-07  4:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-07  4:21 Will Senn [this message]
2017-11-07  4:34 ` arnold
2017-11-07  4:49   ` Will Senn
2017-11-07  5:00     ` Will Senn
2017-11-07  8:08       ` arnold
2017-11-07  9:07 ` Dennis Boone
2017-11-07 13:55   ` Will Senn
2017-11-07 11:21 ` Dan Cross
2017-11-07 14:59   ` Will Senn
2017-11-07 15:33 ` Don Hopkins
2017-11-08 16:48 ` Ralph Corderoy

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