Re: Cannot change to 'C:\' (root) on Windows

[Ethan A M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

Nevertheless, so far as I can tell from testing, versions
3.7, 4.0, and 4.1 all behave the same way.
Why is it suddenly a bug now, but not for the past 10 years?



On Sunday 13 November 2005 11:04 am, Petr Mikulik wrote:
> >> Can be reproduced in this way:
> >>
> >> gnuplot> set title 'c:\'
> >> gnuplot> show title
> >>
> >>          title is "c:\\'", offset at ((character units) 0, 0, 0)
> >> It seems routine  try_to_get_string()  returns one superfluous '
> >> more.
> >
> > It has nothing to do with try_to_get_string().
> > The behaviour has been there since at least version 3.7
> > Backslash is an escape character, and you have escaped the trailing
> > single quote. This forces it to be kept in the string.
> > What you need to do is to escape the backslash itself,
> > and use double quotes:
>
> \ is an escape character in quotes " only, not in '
>
> See:
>
> gnuplot> set title 'c:\tmp'
> gnuplot> show title
>
>          title is "c:\\tmp", offset at ((character units) 0, 0, 0)
>
> gnuplot> set title 'c:\'
> gnuplot> show title
>
>          title is "c:\\'", offset at ((character units) 0, 0, 0)
>
>
> In the bug report example, gnuplot mistakenly adds an '
>
> > Does the original problem persist if you use double quotes?
> >
> > Can you use the cygwin syntax (forward slash) instead?
> > 	cd "c:/"
>
> This works.
>
> ---
> PM

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Ethan A Merritt
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