printf returning unknown number

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi,

Can anybody tell me why this function returns 49?

printf "%d\n" \'10

I don't understand what the \ and ' are there for?

thanks!!!

2

49 is the ascii value of the character '1'.

The solution(s) :

printf "%d\n" 10
printf "%d\n" '10'

Jean-Pierre.