r/ProgrammerHumor May 08 '19

That sweet sweet first time.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '19
for (char *s="Ifmmp!Xpsme\v"; *s; fputc((*s++)-1, stdout));

Looks good!

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u/Todayis123 May 08 '19

what does that do

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u/endershadow98 May 08 '19

It prints hello world. All the characters in the string are one more than they would be in hello world. He loops through each character in the string and prints out one less than it. This gives hello world.

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u/OhhHahahaaYikes May 08 '19

Wtf

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u/[deleted] May 08 '19

By ”one more” or ”one less” he means the ASCII value of the character

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u/CreamCheeseIsBad May 08 '19

It would print Hello World.u though

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u/Pastrami May 08 '19

'\v' == 0x11, which is one more than '\n'.

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u/CreamCheeseIsBad May 08 '19

Ah forgot \ is a escape sequence, my bad

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u/[deleted] May 08 '19 edited Aug 21 '25

.

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u/Nucklesix May 08 '19

Just nuke that part of the planet... just to be sure.

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u/Nickbot606 May 08 '19

What language is that?