From bug-request at octave dot org Wed Dec  7 18:31:23 2005
Subject: Re: str2num.m can't handle LF character.
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at users dot sourceforge dot net>
Cc: Bill Denney <denney at seas dot upenn dot edu>,         "Frederick (Rick) A Niles" <fniles@mitre.org>, bug@octave.org
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 19:31:17 -0500

On  7-Dec-2005, Paul Kienzle wrote:

| Is lex greedy?

Yes.
 
|    if 3 == 1 ...
| + 2
|      'true'
|    else
|      'false'
|    endif
| 
| will print different things if fed '\r\n' as two NL tokens
| rather than one.

It will now do the same thing (print 'true') if the continuation is
followed by \r, \n, or \r\n.

jwe



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