[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #59065] New line in first argument of 'input'

[Rik]

Update of bug #59065 (project octave):

                Priority:              5 - Normal => 3 - Low                

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Follow-up Comment #1:

Hmmm, this is wrapped up in the distinction Octave makes between double-quoted
strings and single-quoted strings.  Escape characters are processed in
double-quoted strings so this works in Octave (and Matlab):


a = input ("line1\nline2\nline3: ")


If you want to process escape characters within single-quoted strings in
Octave you need to use something like the sprintf() function.


a = input (sprintf ('line1\nline2\nline3: '))


This probably only gets addressed permanently if we decide to drop support for
double-quoted character arrays and then re-use the '"' character to indicate
string array as Matlab now does.

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