Problem with single quotes

Andreas Yankopolus andreas at yank.to
Thu Oct 2 09:49:48 CDT 2008


Søren,

> I doubt that'll work in Matlab either:
>
>  1) Matlab doesn't have the printf function -- you have to use fprintf

I've changed all my printf(…) statements to fprintf (1, …)

>  2) The escape code for ' inside a single quoted string is ''.
>
> So, the following should work:
>  fprintf ('''')

I did not know that. That statement prints a double quote in Octave.  
I'll give it a shot in Matlab and see what happens.

Thanks,

Andreas




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