[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #35911] Backslash escaping in regexprep replacement string incompatibility

[Burkart Lingner]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #35911 (project octave):

Thanks for refreshing my memory regarding the different treatment of
single-quoted and double-quoted strings in Octave. So my MATLAB example


regexprep('foobar', '[fb]', '\') % single quotes replacement


equals


regexprep('foobar', '[fb]', "\") % double quotes replacement


in Octave, presumably for all escape sequences mentioned at
http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Escape-Sequences-in-String-Constants.html#Escape-Sequences-in-String-Constants.

My question is, does this MATLAB incompatibility exist because nobody has
taken it on, yet, (which I would totally understand) or is there a consensus
amongst Octave developers that the current Octave behavior is actually
superior to MATLAB's, i.e. "it's not a bug, it's a feature"?

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