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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 "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?

Solution

  • Escape the quotes with backslashes:

    printf("She said \"time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana\".");

    There are special escape characters that you can use in string literals, and these are denoted with a leading backslash.