build fail

[codecrack]

i'm just learning programming from a book but i don't know why it always fails to build.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <conio.h>
int main()
 {

 char letter;   												 // Letter typed by the user

   printf("Do you want to continue?\ (Y/N): ");

   letter = getch();         								 // Get the letter
   letter = toupper(letter);  							 // Convert letter to uppercase

   while ((letter != 'Y') && (letter != 'N'))
     {
       putch(7);      			      			      // Beep the speaker
       letter = getch();      			 			   // Get the letter
       letter = toupper(letter);						   // Convert letter to uppercase
     }

   printf("\n Your response was %c \n", letter);
  }

[weaknessforcats]

This code:

printf("Do you want to continue?\ (Y/N): ");

should look like:

printf("Do you want to continue? (Y/N): ");

That \ in the original version is the escape sequence. It tells the compiler that the character following the \ is a escape sequence character. Like \n where the n means "newline".

There is no \(, hence the error.