multi-line string in octave, Matlab code does not run in octave

[Nasser M. Abbasi]

I am trying to run some code I wrote in Matlab under Octave. This code runs ok 
in Matlab:

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myString=['\n'...
'\\section{short summary table}\n'];
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But Octave gives syntax error

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> octave
GNU Octave, version 3.8.1

octave:1> t.m
parse error near line 2 of file /home/me/data/t.m

  syntax error
> > > '\\section{short summary table}\n'];
     ^
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and
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> cat t.m
myString=['\n'...
'\\section{short summary table}\n'];
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Does not octave support long string continuation using ... as
with Matlab? and if so, what would the syntax be?

thanks,
--Nasser