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Re: Edit problem Octave


From: Ben Abbott
Subject: Re: Edit problem Octave
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:50:00 -0500

On Jan 16, 2013, at 12:32 PM, Nicholas Jankowski wrote:

> next question to the group... does it matter if that's in a double quote or 
> single quote? examples I see online that supposedly work have a double quote. 
> but that shouldn't matter should it? 

Yes it matters.  The page linked to below explains the difference.  
Essentially, single quotes will preserve the characters as you typed them.  
Double quotes support escape sequences.

        
http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Escape-Sequences-in-String-Constants.html

Ben



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