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Richard Harter wrote:
> 
> The other day I wanted to put three successive question marks in a
> string.  Frex, "(???).%s.%s".  My trusty antique gcc compiler
> converted the last two '?'s into a ']' along with a warning that it
> was doing a trigraph conversion.
> 
> Now, me, I know from nothing about trigraphs - never used them, hope
> never to use them - so I was caught by surprise.  My elderly copy of
> K&R described them but I didn't see anything about getting around
> them.
> 
> So.  How is one supposed to get three successive question marks into a
> string?
> 

"(?""?""?).%s.%s\n"

-- 
pete