From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Fri Nov 14 15:10:44 1997
Subject: title(aaa
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: ged at ireq dot ca
Cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 15:11:12 -0600

On 14-Nov-1997, ged at ireq dot ca <ged@ireq.ca> wrote:

| Bug report for Octave 2.0.9 configured for sparc-sun-solaris2.6
| 
| Description:
| -----------
| 
| title("aaa ") result in the error
| error: unterminated string constant
| parse error:
| 
| >>> gset title "aaa "
|                      ^
| 
| error: evaluating index expression near line 38, column 5
| error: evaluating if command near line 36, column 3
| error: called from `title' in file `/gimli1/ged/octave/share/octave/2.0.9/m/plot/title.m'
| 
| title("aaa") works fine

I think the following change fixes this problem.  It will be in 2.0.10.

jwe


Thu Jul 31 22:59:04 1997  John W. Eaton  <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>

	* lex.l <TEXT_FCN>: Ensure that we handle words that begin with
	single or double quotes as strings.


*** src/lex.l~	Mon May 19 20:10:10 1997
--- src/lex.l	Fri Nov 14 01:46:42 1997
***************
*** 244,250 ****
      return handle_string (yytext[0], 1);
    }
  
! <TEXT_FCN>[^ \t\n\;\,]*{S}* {
      string tok = strip_trailing_whitespace (yytext);
      TOK_PUSH_AND_RETURN (tok, TEXT);
    }
--- 247,253 ----
      return handle_string (yytext[0], 1);
    }
  
! <TEXT_FCN>[^ \t\n\;\,\"\'][^ \t\n\;\,]*{S}* {
      string tok = strip_trailing_whitespace (yytext);
      TOK_PUSH_AND_RETURN (tok, TEXT);
    }