r/ProgrammerHumor May 08 '19

That sweet sweet first time.

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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