From maintainers-request at octave dot org Sat Apr 15 22:53:40 2006
Subject: Re: Jump from 2.1.65 to 2.9.5
From: Daniel J Sebald <daniel dot sebald at ieee dot org>
To: Bill Denney <denney at seas dot upenn dot edu>
CC: octave maintainers mailing list <maintainers at octave dot org>
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 23:01:17 -0500

Bill Denney wrote:

> This is a documentation bug.  The system function was changed for 
> compatibility.

OK, thanks.

> Strings are now interpreted differently depending on the quotes used. 
> Single quotes (') work as in matlab with no interpretation of the 
> string, and double quotes (") use backslash escaping.  You are probably 
> looking for the double quote.

Hmm, alright.  So I'm guessing that this might not be correct then:

octave:11> sprintf('hi\nthere')
ans = hi
there

which currently is the same as with " ", unless the printf() family has been fixed in CVS.


So, I shouldn't be writing lines like this:

    __gnuplot_raw__ (sprintf ('set nokey\n'));

but instead like this

    __gnuplot_raw__ ("set nokey\n");

?

gvim's highlighting works better with single quotes than with double quotes, unfortunately.


Dan