[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #49454] strread commentstyle doesn't work as expected

[Rik]

Update of bug #49454 (project octave):

                 Summary: strread commentstyle shell doesn't work as expected
=> strread commentstyle doesn't work as expected

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Follow-up Comment #1:

Confirmed.  The problem is general to any of the commentstyle options.  For
example,


strread ("hello%foo\nworld", "%s", 'commentstyle', 'matlab'


also returns just "hello".

The strread function is in an m-file in scripts/io so it is easy enough to
debug.  The problem is that the End-of-Line character in the variable eol_char
is empty.  Starting at around line 325 in strread.m


  ## Remove comments in str
  if (comment_flag)
    ## Expand 'eol_char' here, after option processing which may have set
value
    comment_end = strrep (comment_end, "eol_char", eol_char);


I'm adding Philip to the CC list since he understands this function better
than anyone else.


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