Problem with single quotes

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Andreas Yankopolus <andreas at yank.to> wrote:
> I'm trying to write some Octave code that's compatible with Matlab.
> One of the differences is that Matlab uses single quotation marks, and
> I quickly ran into problems with Octave's handling of them. The
> following command should print a single quotation mark, but it gives a
> syntax error:
>
> printf ('\'');
>

Why do you think so? Does this work in Matlab? If yes, what version?



> I'm running Octave 3.0.0 on Ubuntu Hardy installed via the package
> manger. The same problem occurs on Octave 3.0.2 on OS X installed via
> Fink.
>
> Am I doing something wrong? Is this a bug?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andreas
>
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