Learn how to use to print percent charactersprintf()In C
When writing aCProgram, you may need to print%Percent character usageprintf().
Maybe you are developing a program that calculates percentages, which is common when you are just learning a language and creating small programs.
how did you do it?
If you try to use it like this:
printf("%");It doesn't work, and the compiler will give you a similar warning
hello.c:9:14: warning: incomplete format specifier
[-Wformat]
printf("%");
^
1 warning generated.and it is not printed.
To make it work, you need to write %%, like this:
printf("%%");
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