How can I print a quotation mark in C

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In an interview I was asked     Print a quotation mark using the printf   function   I was overwhelmed  Even in their office there was a computer and they told me to try it  I tried like this   void main         printf  Printing quotation mark           but as I suspected it doesn t compile  When the compiler gets the first   it thinks it is the end of string  which is not  So how can I achieve this

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Without a backslash  special characters have a natural special meaning  With a  backslash they print as they appear       -   escape the next character     -   start or end of string       -   start or end a character constant     -   start a format specification     -   print a backslash     -   print a double quote       -   print a single quote     -   print a percent sign   The statement   printf               will print you the quotes  You can also print these special characters  a   b   f   n   r   t and  v with a  slash  preceeding it

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You have to escape the quotationmark   printf

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This one also works   printf   c n   printf  Here  I print some double quotes         But if you plan to use it in an interview  make sure you can explain what it does   EDIT  Following Eric Postpischil s comment  here s a version that doesn t rely on ASCII   printf   c n   printf    s         Printing quotes         The output isn t as nice  and it still isn t 100  portable  will break on some hypothetical encoding schemes   but it should work on EBCDIC

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you should use escape character like this    printf

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Try this    include  lt stdio h gt   int main       printf  Printing quotation mark

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In C programming language    is used to print some of the special characters which has sepcial meaning in C  Those special characters are listed below     - Backslash    - Single Quotation Mark    - Double Quatation Mark  n - New line  r - Carriage Return  t - Horizontal Tab  b - Backspace  f - Formfeed  a - Bell beep  sound

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include lt stdio h gt  int main    char ch      printf   c  ch   return 0      Output

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You have to use escaping of characters  It s a solution of this chicken-and-egg problem  how do I write a    if I need it to terminate a string literal  So  the C creators decided to use a special character that changes treatment of the next char    printf  this is a   quoted string        Also you can use     to input special symbols like   n     t     a   to input     itself       and so on

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Besides escaping the character  you can also use the format  c  and use the character literal for a quotation mark   printf  And I quote   cThis is a quote  c n

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