Program to Print it’s Own Source Code

Submitted by Srikanth on Saturday, 24 November 200710 Comments

Here is a C program to print it’s own source code. That is the output of this program is exactly same as it’s source code. Here’s the program

#include<stdio.h>
char *program=”#include<stdio.h>%cchar *program=%c%s%c;%cvoid main()%c{%cprintf(program,10,34,program,34,10, 10,10,10);%c}”;

void main()
{
printf(program,10,34,program,34,10,10,10,10);
}

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10 Comments »

Hitesh said:

Hey Srikanth, can u please send me such type of c programs @ hitesh.m01@gmail.com.
this is a great site which helped me a lot
great work is done by u for learners of c Keep it up.

- 14 December 2008 at 12:31 PM

Slim0123 said:

how about one more the smallest quine ever

main() { char *s=”main() { char *s=%c%s%c; printf(s,34,s,34); }”; printf(s,34,s,34); }

- 31 December 2008 at 1:32 PM

JAIDEEP said:

hello Srikanth,
can u please mail me some game source codes

- 14 January 2009 at 11:26 AM

Learning C said:

Can u please explain the code????

- 9 February 2009 at 9:37 PM

biswajit das said:

Hi
srikanth please send me c code which is destroy the another exe files of windows

- 20 February 2009 at 4:00 PM

Jagadish Kumar said:

#include
main()
{
FILE *fp=fopen(__FILE__,”r”);
char ch;
printf(“Hello World\n”);
while(!feof(fp))
{
ch=fgetc(fp);
printf(“%c”,ch);
}
}

This program also prints it out source code as output .

- 3 June 2009 at 9:40 PM

aparajit said:

can we use this program to get source code of exe file that has been coded in c language ,please mail it to aparajitlal.kumar@gmail.com

with thanks.

- 8 November 2009 at 5:34 PM

satish said:

can it possible to run a .exe or .mp3 or .jpeg or etc… files through
c or c++

- 6 July 2011 at 9:38 PM

raju said:

nice trick thanx

- 25 July 2011 at 12:52 AM

mangesh said:

thanx you sir

- 25 July 2011 at 12:53 AM

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