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Weird gcc error stray/missing terminating " character in C

I get the following errors:

error: missing terminating " character

and

error: stray `\' in program

In this line of C code:

 system("sqlite3 -html /home/user/.rtcom-eventlogger/el.db \"SELECT service_id, event_type_id,free_text, remote_uid FROM Events WHERE remote_uid=\'%d\' ORDER BY start_time DESC;\" > lol.html", nr);

"nr" is a integer variable.

I have gone over this so many times but are totally stuck of finding a solution.

EDIT: The errors is the ouput while compiling with gcc if I didn't make that clear.

Solution

  • Within a double-quoted string in C, I don't think that \' has any meaning. It looks like your backslashing there is meant to protect the single quotes in the shell, which means they should be double-backslashed within the string: remote_uid=\\'%d\\'.