Question

How to printf %d literally

It’s probably a simple answer. But I can’t seem to find the answer.

Let’s say I want to:

printf( "printf(\"%d\", x );" );

I want the output to literally be: printf( "%d", x );

Is there a way to do it? If I just put in the code that I wrote above, a number gets placed into %d, but I don’t want anything placed in there. I just want the literal %d.

Answer 1

Escape the % with another %:

printf( "printf(\"%%d\", x );" );