[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #33611] Matlab-incompatible character string escape processing

[John W. Eaton]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?33611>

                 Summary: Matlab-incompatible character string escape
processing
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: jwe
            Submitted on: Tue 21 Jun 2011 03:10:03 PM GMT
                Category: Interpreter
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Matlab Compatibility
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: dev
        Operating System: Any

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Details:

Octave processes string escapes in the following context:


octave:6> eval ('disp "foo\xar"')
warning: unrecognized escape sequence `\x' -- converting to `x'
fooxar


This does not happen in Matlab (Matlab only processes string escapes in the
format of a call to *printf).  This problem has consequences for command
evaluation on Windows systems where backslash is used as a directory
separator.




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