[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #56419] Implementation of newline

[Guillaume]

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #56419 (project octave):

Here is a new version incorporating all of the changes from comment #1.


diff -r 9e5c1d343a2c libinterp/corefcn/strfns.cc
--- a/libinterp/corefcn/strfns.cc       Mon Jun 03 19:03:15 2019 -0700
+++ b/libinterp/corefcn/strfns.cc       Tue Jun 04 09:45:20 2019 +0100
@@ -45,6 +45,31 @@
 
 #include "oct-string.h"
 
+DEFUN (newline, args, ,
+       doc: /* -*- texinfo -*-
address@hidden {} {} newline ()
+Return the character corresponding to a newline.
+
+This is equivalent to @qcode{"@xbackslashchar{}n"}.
+
address@hidden, strjoin, strsplit}
address@hidden deftypefn */)
+{
+  if (args.length () != 0)
+    print_usage ();
+
+  static octave_value_list retval = ovl ("\n");
+
+  return retval;
+}
+
+/*
+%!assert (newline (), "\n")
+
+%!error newline (1)
+%!error [a, b] = newline ()
+*/
+
 DEFUN (char, args, ,
        doc: /* -*- texinfo -*-
 @deftypefn  {} {} char (@var{x})



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