What's the escape sequence for blanks in C?

c escaping whitespace space kernighan-and-ritchie
MW2000 picture MW2000 · Jul 22, 2010 · Viewed 68.3k times · Source

I'm writing a program to count blanks, tabs, and newlines. I remember what the escape sequence for tabs and newlines are, but what about blanks? \b? Or is that backspace?

Answer

GManNickG picture GManNickG · Jul 22, 2010

You mean "blanks" like in "a b"? That's a space: ' '.

Here's a list of escape sequences for reference.

Related questions

What does the symbol \0 mean in a string-literal?

Consider following code: char str[] = "Hello\0"; What is the length of str array, and with how much 0s it is ending?

Read More
What's the Use of '\r' escape sequence?

I have C code like this: #include<stdio.h> int main() { printf("Hey this is my first hello world \r"); return 0; } I have used the \r escape sequence as an experiment. When I run the code I get …

Read More
How can I get double quotes into a string literal?

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 "…

Read More