Re: Escape characters and Matlab compatibility

[Bill Denney]

What version of octave are you using?  This behavior is changed in the 
2.9.x series I believe so that '\' works like it does in matlab while "\" 
is more powerful and allows for string escapes.

Bill

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Andrew Funk wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to run MatlabMPI examples under Octave and right away I ran
> into this problem:
>
> octave:1> '\'
> error: unterminated string constant
> parse error:
>
> > > > '\'
>       ^
>
>
> I see this was addressed some time ago (1997) but it didn't seem to be
> resolved so I'm just wondering what the current status is?
>
> Thanks,
> Andy
>
>
>
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