title: \\\ prints just one backslash?
body: <p>In C, on mentioning three backslashes, like so:</p>
  
  <pre><code>#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
  
  int main() { 
      printf(" \\\ ");
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>prints out just one backslash in the output. Why and how does this work?</p>