How can I get double quotes into a string literal

Question

I have the following output created using a printf   statement   printf  She said time flies like an arrow  but fruit flies like a banana       but I want to put the actual quotation in double-quotes  so the output is     She said  time flies like an arrow  but fruit flies like a banana     without interfering with the double quotes used to wrap the string literal in the printf   statement   How can I do this

User · Accepted Answer

Escape the quotes with backslashes  printf  quot She said   quot time flies like an arrow  but fruit flies like a banana  quot   quot      There are special escape characters that you can use in string literals  and these are denoted with a leading backslash

User · Answer

Thankfully  with C  11 there is also the more pleasing approach of using raw string literals  printf  quot She said   quot time flies like an arrow  but fruit flies like a banana  quot   quot     Becomes  printf R quot  She said  quot time flies like an arrow  but fruit flies like a banana quot    quot     With respect to the addition of brackets after the opening quote  and before the closing quote  note that they can be almost any combination of up to 16 characters  helping avoid the situation where the combination is present in the string itself  Specifically   any member of the basic source character set except  space  the left parenthesis    the right parenthesis    the backslash   and the control characters representing horizontal tab  vertical tab  form feed  and newline quot   N3936   2 14 5  lex string  grammar  and  quot at most 16 characters quot     2 14 5 2   How much clearer it makes this short strings might be debatable  but when used on longer formatted strings like HTML or JSON  it s unquestionably far clearer

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