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Re: Escape sequences in *printf family of functions


From: Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
Subject: Re: Escape sequences in *printf family of functions
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 16:34:28 -0400

On 5 April 2012 16:16, Daniel J Sebald <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 04/05/2012 11:58 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:
>>
>> I'd prefer it if we just have single-quoted strings behave in a
>> way that is compatible with Matlab.  I know it is inconsistent and
>> ugly, but I think making the behavior optional is worse.
>
>
> I don't think it is too bad the way it is.  The user is inherently choosing
> the compatibility mode by selecting the single or double quotes.
>
> However, it would be good to make the documentation reflect what you just
> wrote, if that hasn't been done yet.  For example, I suggest

Can you produce a cset? The stuff you're talking about is in
doc/interpreter/strings.txi

- Jordi G. H.


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