Re: input with line break

[Przemek Klosowski]

On 10/3/19 5:12 PM, Santiago Higuera wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> I'm using Ocatve 5.1, and I've observed that if I use:
>
> x=input("x= \n")
>
> The special character '\n' is recognized, but if I use single quoted 
> string, it is not recognized.
>
> Is it a bug? In MATLAB single quoted string recognize the special 
> character for line break in input() function. 

I don't consider it a bug---it's a convention used in many other places 
(e.g. the shell)

Matlab disregards escape characters in both forms, but seems to 
special-case escape characters (at least \n) in input(). Octave doesn't 
need to because you can pass them in double-quoted strings.

It is a minor Octave-Matlab incompatibility but I just think Octave does 
it better. Are there other known cases of special-casing escapes in Matlab?