Hey,

I wanted to insert some ASCII art in some program which i am working on. But there is some problem when i try to display a " \ ".If i type "\", it doesnt display anything and If i type " \\ ", then it displays one slash. This is really irritating. Is there any way to get just one back-slash without typing it multiple times

I use Borland turbo C++ 4.5 .

Thanx

No, really, it is. Anything that starts with \ (i.e. \n, \a, etc) is an "escape sequence" that encodes something that can't be expresed with a character, such as \n for a line break or \a for a beep. But, sometimes \ needs to appear. Therefore, in C/C++ (and a bunch of other languages) \\ means \.

You could write a simple program that takes lines of ascii chars from a file converts single backslashes to doubles for your C code. (What are you putting into your program? string literals containg the ascii sequences or what?)

The file of ascii chars would be created by some artist (using a text editor, for example) or by some program that scans bit map files (or other graphics files) and spits out lines of ascii chars.

Show us a couple of lines of ascii art and tell us how you would like to use them in your program. Then maybe we can be a little more specific about possible solutions.


Regards,

Dave