what category do %d or /n fall in?
characters like %d or /n used in c++, what are these guys called? if i want a full table of these characters, what name should search for??
If you mean the newline character \n it's called an escape sequence.
http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/escape
%d is not one character. It's just a regular '%' character followed by a 'd' character. They only have a special meaning with some functions like printf, scanf, etc. The term you are looking for is format specifier or conversion specifier.
http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/io/c/fprintf
http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/io/c/fscanf
http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/escape
%d is not one character. It's just a regular '%' character followed by a 'd' character. They only have a special meaning with some functions like printf, scanf, etc. The term you are looking for is format specifier or conversion specifier.
http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/io/c/fprintf
http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/io/c/fscanf
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