What does 'advance to the next page' mean in a printf statement?

[Math Is Hard]

Hi all,

I am working on one of my first assignments for my C class. My teacher gave the following instructions:

Write a printf statement that outputs the phrase "To be continued" and then advances to the next page.

I am completely confused by what he means by "advance to the next page"? Is that like going to a new line? I thought I would ask y'all first before I email him in case it's something completely obvious.

thanks!

 

[AKG]

Hi all,

I am working on one of my first assignments for my C class. My teacher gave the following instructions:

Write a printf statement that outputs the phrase "To be continued" and then advances to the next page.

I am completely confused by what he means by "advance to the next page"? Is that like going to a new line? I thought I would ask y'all first before I email him in case it's something completely obvious.

thanks!

Looks like he wants a page break. You probably know that '\n' is the new line character, and will advance to the next line. See if you can find a bunch of special characters, and find the one that advances to the next line.

 

[enigma]

Hrm... maybe he meant "advances to the next line"?

 

[Math Is Hard]

Next line is all I can figure - and I can't find anything about "next page" anywhere in my book. However, there's plenty of instruction in the first chapters about going to the next line.
Thanks for your help.

 

[AKG]

\f - form feed
\r - carriage return
\v - vertical tab

If you look in the index of your book, you should find these. Or look up "escape sequences." Anyways, the 3 above are the ones I would think most likely to produce a new page... experiment and let us know what does what.

 

[enigma]

Who knows,

He may want you to wait for an input after the "to be continued", and then clear the page by having enough \n's.

 

[Pattielli]

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[Math Is Hard]

aha! here's what my prof sez:

This is a case of "old" terminology corrupting the modern generation. In my day, printers used continuous feed paper where you had to separate each sheet along the perforation. To tell the printer to go to the next sheet, or "form", you did a form feed command to the printer. The terminology is still used on occation today to mean "next page". The printf escape sequence is \f for "Form feed" which really means "page break" or "advance to next page".