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

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

Ethan Merritt wrote:

> \'  or \"   are not "special characters", they are escaped quotes.
> If you do not allow some mechanism for escaping quotes, then you
> cannot represent a quote inside a quoted string.

The mechanism for escaping quotes in gnuplot is to use a double-quoted 
string and use backslash escapes.  There is neither a need for 
supporting backslash escapes in single-quoted strings, nor does the 
documentation even suggest such a thing, anywhere.

> gnuplot> a = "foo\"bar"
> gnuplot> print a
> foo"bar
> 
> gnuplot> b = 'foo\'bar'
> gnuplot> print b
> foo\'bar
> 
> If there is a bug here, it is not the fact that the backslash
> escapes the single-quote.  It is that the print routine should
> know enough not to _print_ the backslash in such a case.

No, the bug is that the command

	b = 'foo\'bar'

was accepted in the first place.  It should have flagged a syntax error.