I am trying to make this Hangman silhouette:

But I am finding an issue with the printf statement as it is taking the \ as a command for \n instead of the right leg and for future code the right hand.

Anything I can do to fix it?

Code below is the hang man with no arms.

#include <iostream>

int main()
{
    printf("\n --- \n|   |\n|   O\n|   |\n|  / \ \n|\n=========");
}

CodePudding user response：

you can use double \\ so it won't take it as an escape character. so your code will be:

#include <iostream>

int main()
{
    printf("\n --- \n|   |\n|   O\n|   |\n|  / \\ \n|\n=========");
}

CodePudding user response：

Backslashes must be doubled in strings to appear as themselves. Also break the string into multiple pieces, one row per line for readability:

#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
    printf("\n"
           "   --- \n"
           "  |   |\n"
           "  |   O\n"
           "  |  /|\\\n"
           "  |  / \\\n"
           "  |\n"
           "=========\n");
    return 0;
}

Or seen from the other side as in the picture:

#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
    printf("\n"
           "   --- \n"
           "  |   |\n"
           "  O   |\n"
           " /|\\  |\n"
           " / \\  |\n"
           "      |\n"
           "=========\n");
    return 0;
}