[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #39775] Consistent treatment of octal and hexadecimal escape sequences in double-quoted strings

[John W. Eaton]

Follow-up Comment #10, bug #39775 (project octave):

It appears that Matlab does not limit to two, but does warn if the result is
outside the range of possible character values (and then proceeds to fail to
perform any conversion at all).  How about doing that?

Here's a test you can try:


abs (sprintf ('\x00absolutely'))
abs (sprintf ('\x00abcsolutely'))
abs (sprintf ('\x00abcdsolutely'))
abs (sprintf ('\x00abcdesolutely'))


Note that leading zeros are allowed, so it is not just about counting digits
and limiting them to 2, 4, or whatever.

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