[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #47553] textscan Whitespace characters different from Matlab

[Lachlan Andrew]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #47553 (project octave):

Thanks, Rik.  I've forgotten the reason for that, but as I recall, it was to
make the behaviour match Matlab's in some context.  It may break it in another
(such as when the new-line character is defined to be something other than \r,
\n or \r\n), but for now there are many bigger bugs to chase...


A related incompatibility is that Matlab only interprets delimiters \b, \n,
\r, \t and \\ within a single-quoted string, whereas Octave interprets its
full range of escapes, including \a (=7), \f (=12) and \v (=11).  However, I
consider Octave's behaviour better and unlikely to cause problems.

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