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

[Nicholas Jankowski]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Nasser M. Abbasi <address@hidden> wrote:

On 7/9/2015 12:57 PM, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:

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?

Ok, I've resolved this. Octave wanted a "," between the lines,
while Matlab does not. This works in Matlab:

myString=['a'...
          'b'];

But not in Octave. So changed it to add a comma as in:

myString=['a',...
          'b'];

And now it works in both Matlab and Octave.
Case closed.

just verifying, ML 2015a doesn't require either the comma or whitespace character for that command. Octave 4.0.0 does.

I would have thought without whitespace it would make a'b (same as if it was a single line without space between the two), but it does not.