#include <stdio.h>
main()
{
printf("\c");
}
the character 'c' gets printed to the screen.
Likewise, the code
#include <stdio.h>
main()
{
printf("\a");
}
prints the character 'a' to the screen. Try
this with some more characters, and you will find that
printf ignores the backslash when the escape sequence is
invalid.