How do you output the \ symbol using cout?

Question

How do you output \\ symbol using cout?

Answer 1

Maybe

cout << "\\";

Answer 2

The '\' character is an escape character in C and C++. You can output a literal '\' by escaping it with itself:

   cout << "This is a backslash: \\";

Answer 3

std::cout << '\\';

Answer 4

cout << "\\" << endl;

Instead of endl you could:

cout << "\\ \n";

Answer 5

Use two backslashes \\

Answer 6

In addition to all the correct answers, see this for further escaped characters

\a  Bell (beep)
\b  Backspace
\f  Formfeed
\n  Newline
\r  Return
\t  Tab
\\  Backslash
\'  Single quote
\"  Double quote
\xdd    Hexadecimal representation
\ffffd    Octal representation
\?  Question mark ('?')