Strings in Octave and Matlab

[John W. Eaton]

On  6-Jan-2009, James Sherman Jr. wrote:

| I believe this is just because octave is just more lax because it accepts
| both ' and " as delimeters for a string.  I think they did this for those
| that are used to programming in C and are more familiar with using " instead
| of '.
| 
| Just stick with the single apostrophe ( ' ) and you should be fine.
| 
| I know there are other cases like this (using the ++ operator I think is
| one), but I don't know of any mode where you can force Matlab compatibility
| in Octave.

You can do 

  warning on Octave:matlab-incompatible

It doesn't catch everything.

jwe