[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #52870] small issues about double quote (") with backslash (\)

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  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52870>

                 Summary: small issues about double quote (") with backslash
(\)
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Fri 12 Jan 2018 08:14:09 AM UTC
                Category: Documentation
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Documentation
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: 
        Originator Email: address@hidden
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 4.2.1
        Operating System: Any

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Details:

Some "...\..." should be replaced with either '...\...' or "...\\..."


diff -ur a/libinterp/corefcn/input.cc b/libinterp/corefcn/input.cc
--- a/libinterp/corefcn/input.cc
+++ b/libinterp/corefcn/input.cc
@@ -1210,7 +1210,7 @@
 When executing interactively, Octave displays the primary prompt when it is
 ready to read a command.
 
-The default value of the primary prompt string is @qcode{"octave:\#> "}.
+The default value of the primary prompt string is @qcode{'octave:\#> '}.
 To change it, use a command like
 
 @example
diff -ur a/scripts/strings/regexptranslate.m
b/scripts/strings/regexptranslate.m
--- a/scripts/strings/regexptranslate.m
+++ b/scripts/strings/regexptranslate.m
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 ## @example
 ## @group
 ## regexptranslate ("wildcard", "*.m")
-##      @result{} ".*\.m"
+##      @result{} '.*\.m'
 ## @end group
 ## @end example
 ##
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 ## @example
 ## @group
 ## regexptranslate ("escape", "12.5")
-##      @result{} "12\.5"
+##      @result{} '12\.5'
 ## @end group
 ## @end example
 ##



Besides, the following patch might be applied to "stable" branch.
In the "default" branch, md5sum.m has already been fixed, and usage.m
fnmatch.m have already been removed in Octave 4.4

diff -ur a/scripts/deprecated/fnmatch.m b/scripts/deprecated/fnmatch.m
--- a/scripts/deprecated/fnmatch.m
+++ b/scripts/deprecated/fnmatch.m
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 ##
 ## @example
 ## @group
-## fnmatch (\"a*b\", @{\"ab\"; \"axyzb\"; \"xyzab\"@})
+## fnmatch ("a*b", @{"ab"; "axyzb"; "xyzab"@})
 ##      @result{} [ 1; 1; 0 ]
 ## @end group
 ## @end example
diff -ur a/scripts/deprecated/md5sum.m b/scripts/deprecated/md5sum.m
--- a/scripts/deprecated/md5sum.m
+++ b/scripts/deprecated/md5sum.m
@@ -25,13 +25,13 @@
 ## with:
 ##
 ## @example
-## hash (\"md5\", fileread (@var{file}))
+## hash ("md5", fileread (@var{file}))
 ## @end example
 ##
 ## And calls like @code{md5sum (@var{str}, true)} with:
 ##
 ## @example
-## hash (\"md5\", fileread (@var{str}))
+## hash ("md5", fileread (@var{str}))
 ## @end example
 ##
 ## Calculate the MD5 sum of the file @var{file}.
diff -ur a/scripts/deprecated/usage.m b/scripts/deprecated/usage.m
--- a/scripts/deprecated/usage.m
+++ b/scripts/deprecated/usage.m
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 ## @example
 ## @group
 ## if (nargin != 2)
-##   usage (\"foo (a, b)\");
+##   usage ("foo (a, b)");
 ## endif
 ## @end group
 ## @end example





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