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

[John W. Eaton]

Follow-up Comment #6, bug #44745 (project octave):

OK, I think this came up before, and once I saw that Matlab produced a warning
and completely dropped the escape sequence, I decided to not do anything about
it.

You can write something like


sprintf('%s = %.1f', '\lambda', 532)


if you want to be sure that an escape sequence won't be processed.  This is
generally what you will have to do anyway if you want to insert things like
\theta because I don't see a way to guess whether you really want \theta or a
tab followed by 'heta'.

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