Re: Single vs. Double Quotes

[John W. Eaton]

On 15-Oct-2011, Michael Goffioul wrote:

| On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 7:08 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
| > On 15-Oct-2011, Michael Goffioul wrote:
| >
| > | way.This is could be achieved as easily as:
| > |
| > | strrep (delimiter_string, '\n', "\n")
| >
| > I'm not sure, but I don't think it is quite this simple.  WDMD if the
| > delimiter string is set to '\\n'?  Is this recognized as a
| > two-character sequence backslash and n, or is it backslash and NL?
| >
| > In *printf, I think it is backslash and n, so it would be unfortunate
| > if the delimiter string in strread did something different.
| 
| You're right, this was just a quick hack I considered, but far from a
| good solution. Your other solution is better. I also thought about
| that, but was afraid of other side-effects due to the use of sprintf.
| Doubling % characters should prevent them.

Another possibility is do_string_escapes.  It should still be applied
only to single-quoted strings in strread, but it saves you the step of
doubling the % characters and it only does backslash-style escape
processing, so it might be faster than sprintf.

jwe