[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #35911] Backslash escaping in regexprep replacement string incompatibility

[John W. Eaton]

Follow-up Comment #10, bug #35911 (project octave):

The behavior should be fixed to be compatible for single-quoted strings.  The
change is simple enough, and I see no reason to be incompatible here.  There's
no need for new configuration variables, or to enable this feature only for
--traditional.

If you need to check the behavior to make your script compatible now, I
suggest using a test similar to the following to check whether regexprep does
backslash escape processing on it third argument instead of comparing version
numbers.


exist ('OCTAVE_VERSION') && size (regexprep ('a', 'a', 'n')) == 1
n


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