#include int main(){ int a = 0; /*Initializing a as zero; this doesn't matter because getchar is called at the top of the loop */ while (a != EOF){ a = getchar(); if (a == '\b' || a == '\t' || a == '\\'){ /*Test whether the currently selected character is a tab, backspace, or backslash */ if (a == '\b'){ printf("\\b"); continue; } if (a == '\t'){ printf("\\t"); continue; } else { /*There are only three possible cases here, and by the time we get here, we've tested two, hence an else statement is more efficient than doing another entire if statement*/ printf("\\\\"); continue; } } else { putchar (a); } } return 0; }