Subj : Re: Questions...???
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Bob Gonder
Date : Fri Sep 09 2005 01:44 pm

mujeebrm wrote:

>main(){ char *c="main(){char *c=%c%s%c;printf(c,34,c,34);}"

	You are missing the semicolon ;

>printf((c,34,c,34);}

	Too many parens ((

>can any plz decipher this to me or provide reasons or techniques behind all
>this...

This can also be written
main(){ char *c="main(){char *c=\"%s\";printf(c,c);}";
printf(c,c);}

May be a bit clearer if we reformat?
int main(void)
{
	// define a c string
	char *c= "main(){char *c=\"%s\";printf(c,c);}";

	// print the c string using a c string as the format specifier
	printf(c,c);

	return 0;
}
	Put it another way:
	char*c="This is the string c: %s";
	printf( c, c );
	or
	printf( "This is the string c: %s", c );

No real magic.

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