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diff NEWS @ 20245:29eb47fe8e8c
Add support for octal and hex escape sequences in single-quoted *printf arguments (bug #39774).
* NEWS: Announce support for octal and hex escape sequences in single quoted
strings.
* utils.cc (do_string_escapes): Add case statements for hex and octal escape
sequences and convert strings to numbers.
* utils.cc (Fdo_string_escapes): Add BIST tests for octal and hex escape
sequences.
| author | Rik <rik@octave.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Wed, 20 May 2015 17:18:41 -0700 |
| parents | d9f35ceff9e1 |
| children | f2bc7d23295d |
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--- a/NEWS Wed May 20 08:01:10 2015 -0700 +++ b/NEWS Wed May 20 17:18:41 2015 -0700 @@ -1,6 +1,11 @@ Summary of important user-visible changes for version 4.2: --------------------------------------------------------- + ** Octal ('\NNN') and hex ('\xNN') escape sequences in single quoted + strings are now interpreted by the function do_string_escapes(). + The *printf family of functions now supports octal and hex escape + sequences in single-quoted strings for Matlab compatibility. + ** mkfifo now interprets the MODE argument as an octal, not decimal, integer. This is consistent with the equivalent shell command.