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

[Juergen W. <wie...@fr...>]

On Sunday 13 November 2005 22:31 Petr Mikulik wrote:
> gnuplot> set title 'C:\tmp'; show title
>
>          title is "C:\\tmp", offset at ((character units) 0, 0, 0)
>
> gnuplot> set title 'C:\'; show title
> gnuplot> set title 'C:\'
> gnuplot> show title
>
>          title is "C:\\'", offset at ((character units) 0, 0, 0)
>
> gnuplot>

gnuplot> set title 'C:\'; show title
gnuplot> show title

        title is "C:\\'; show title", offset at ((character units) 0, 0, 0)

gnuplot>

As I said:  The string is implicitly ended by the end of the line,
not by the last single quote.

> In gnuplot, the \ is escape character in "this" string, but a normal
> character in 'this' string.

I would have expected this, too, two months ago.  But which section
of the docs says so?  I haven't found any.  If I had, I would have
submitted a bug report, then.  I say, it's not a bug, it's weird
undocumented behaviour (which may end up being mostly the same).
But there *is* an example of a similar syntax out there (raw
strings).  So there probably is a reason for it.  

Don't get me wrong: I don't promote the current syntax.  Change it
if you like.  I just want to explain it.


Juergen