How to print '\n' instead of a newline?

Question

I am writing a program that uses prints a hex dump of its input. However, I\'m running into problems when newlines, tabs, etc are passed in and destroying my output formatti

Answer 1

In C/C++, the '\' character is reserved as the escape character. So whenever you want to actually print a '\', you must enter '\'. So to print the actual '\n' value you would print the following:

printf("\\n");