comma position in conjuction with \ problem

[John W. Eaton]

On 10-Nov-2008, Sergei Steshenko wrote:

| Hello All,
| 
| please see the following session:
| 
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| octave:1> system("pwd; cat -n comma_position_bug.m");
| /home/sergei/junk
|      1  foo = \
|      2    {\
|      3    "a", \
|      4    "b"
|      5    };
|      6
|      7  bar = \
|      8    {\
|      9    "a" \
|     10   ,"b"
|     11    };
| octave:2> source("/home/sergei/junk/comma_position_bug.m")
| parse error near line 10 of file /home/sergei/junk/comma_position_bug.m
| 
|   syntax error
| 
| >>>  ,"b"
|     ^
| 
| error: near line 10 of file `/home/sergei/junk/comma_position_bug.m'
| error: source: error sourcing file `/home/sergei/junk/comma_position_bug.m'
| "

I checked in the following change to the main development sources.
This change will probably also apply to 3.0.x.

jwe


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