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

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

On Monday 14 November 2005 10:00 am, Juergen Wieferink wrote:
> 
> As a small excuse for the mostly pointless discussion I've caused,
> I've prepared a small patch which should switch to a more intuitive
> behaviour.  Maybe the docs could be clarified accordingly.

But this breaks the ability to embed quotes:

gnuplot> a = "foo\"bar"
gnuplot> print a
foo"bar
gnuplot> b = 'foo\'bar'
                   ^
         ';' expected


This is particularly a problem is you are constructing, say,
unix shell command lines to pass to a system() call.
There really needs to be a way to escape quote characters.
The other common convention is to repeat the quote character:

c = 'foo''bar'

but that convention is not so far used anywhere in gnuplot.


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