[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #52550] textscan drops delimiter character for multi-character, cell-specified delimiter option

[Dan Sebald]

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #52550 (project octave):

As for compatibility, perhaps we could introduce some property (e.g.,
"MultipleCharacterDelimiter") for which if true causes the Delimiter (whether
it be a string or cell of strings) to be treated as whole words as opposed to
individual characters, i.e.,


textscan(a, '%d', 'delimiter', '123')
textscan(a, '%d', 'delimiter', {'123'})


would be treated as individual characters, whereas


textscan(a, '%d', 'delimiter', '123', 'MultipleCharacterDelimiter')
textscan(a, '%d', 'delimiter', {'123'}, 'MultipleCharacterDelimiter')


would be treated as whole words.

Or, it could be that the two can be combined something like:


textscan(a, '%d', 'delimiter', ',', 'MultipleCharacterDelimiter', '123')


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