[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #44745] single quoted string in sprintf is interpreted

[Mike Miller]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #44745 (project octave):

I agree it would be good to get confirmation on what Matlab's sprintf/fprintf
does with invalid backslash escape sequences. What does Matlab produce with


s = sprintf('\z')


I looked through the manual and the backslash string escapes are not mentioned
anywhere in the section "C-Style I/O Functions". They are documented elsewhere
as a feature of double-quoted strings only. So I can understand the confusion
if someone is not familiar with the printf family of functions and that this
is a normal expected feature.

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