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I have to copy-paste some code in an overleaf document. But the code has tons of percentage symbols that overleaf takes as comments. I wanted to ask if there is any way I can just paste the code as it is without overleaf taking it too literally.
I'm very naive in latex so I'm sorry if this all sounds silly.
The listings package provides a command for inline code snippets:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{listings}
\lstset{language = C++}
\begin{document}
In order to do this just run the
\lstinline!#include <iostream>! command
command in your terminal.
\end{document}
Instead of the exclamation mark you could use any character as delimiter, as long as it does not appear in the code snippet.
Best Answer
If you want to “hide” your code from LaTeX, as it were, there are multiple options. Perhaps simplest is the
\begin{verbatim} … \end{verbatim}environment.Overleaf covers this topic on their pages as well.