C Ascii Art

mleanz1 · 18 Mar 2010 at 18:26

Is it possible to print ascii art in C? I want the code to print a Man but the character in the man count as control symbols is it possible to get the complie to ignore them?

_TubbZ_ · 18 Mar 2010 at 18:32

control characters can be escaped:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/h21280bw(VS.80).aspx

mleanz1 · 18 Mar 2010 at 18:51

I want to print this though
.---.
___ /_____\
/\.-`( '.' ) *BANG*
/ / \_-_/_
\ `-.-"`'V'//-.
`.__, |// , \
|Ll //Ll|\ \
|__// | \_\
/---|[]==| / /
\__/ | \/\/
/_ | Ll_\|
|`^"""^`|
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
L___l___J
|_ | _|
(___|___)
^^^ ^^^
I there away of saying print all the following characters!

mleanz1 · 18 Mar 2010 at 18:52

OK he got a bit messed up but you get the idea!

_TubbZ_ · 18 Mar 2010 at 19:06

Code:

printf(".---.\n");
printf("___ /_____\\ \n");
printf("/\\.-`( '.' ) *BANG*");

As you can see the characters used for escape sequences like \ need to be \\ to print as a \

You can do it all on one line by using a \n at an end of line to create a new line.

If you want to be adventurous you can stick your art in a file then open the file and print the contents to the console. Although you will still have to parse the contents for escape sequences and deal with them so they are displayed correctly.

mleanz1 · 18 Mar 2010 at 19:12

_TubbZ_ said:
If you want to be adventurous you can stick your art in a file then open the file and print the contents to the console. Although you will still have to parse the contents for escape sequences and deal with them so they are displayed correctly.

Hmm that sounds a lot easier. I think ill try that instead!

tntcoder · 18 Mar 2010 at 19:23

mleanz1 said:
Hmm that sounds a lot easier. I think ill try that instead!

Yer that's the best approach I think, then read from the file 1 character at a time, escape it if necessary then print it out

BullBoyShoes · 19 Mar 2010 at 10:37

can you not just do this for each line

my_array[3] = {'\','-','/'}; // or whatever the chars are

printf(&my_array);

_TubbZ_ · 19 Mar 2010 at 18:39

BullBoyShoes said:
can you not just do this for each line

my_array[3] = {'\','-','/'}; // or whatever the chars are

printf(&my_array);

Sticking it in a file would be a lot easier as entering the formatted string is a pain when you can get it to convert the text string from the file to what it wants then print it out.

Plus can you do a printf like that? As it requires a const char * as the first argument followed by the values to insert into the format.

steve-h · 20 Mar 2010 at 11:56

_TubbZ_ said:
Plus can you do a printf like that? As it requires a const char * as the first argument followed by the values to insert into the format.

No, you can't.

Source: http://stev3.pastebin.com/KMfHyfGZ