Re: Single vs. Double Quotes

[Michael Goffioul]

On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 7:08 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 15-Oct-2011, Michael Goffioul wrote:
>
> | way.This is could be achieved as easily as:
> |
> | strrep (delimiter_string, '\n', "\n")
>
> I'm not sure, but I don't think it is quite this simple.  WDMD if the
> delimiter string is set to '\\n'?  Is this recognized as a
> two-character sequence backslash and n, or is it backslash and NL?
>
> In *printf, I think it is backslash and n, so it would be unfortunate
> if the delimiter string in strread did something different.

You're right, this was just a quick hack I considered, but far from a
good solution. Your other solution is better. I also thought about
that, but was afraid of other side-effects due to the use of sprintf.
Doubling % characters should prevent them.

Michael.