[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #59065] Newline in first argument of input() is not processed with single-quoted strings

[Guillaume]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #59065 (project octave):

Thanks for the feedbacks. input() is probably one of the very old Matlab
functions so this might explain its slightly peculiar behavior. It does indeed
only handle newlines ('\n' -> "\n", '\\' -> '\', '\?' -> '?').

Using a more generic do_string_escapes might be the solution but it might make
this function slower, which might be a problem if it's a widely called one? I
therefore wonder if input() could just call the existing do_string_escapes()
and process all escape characters - I would see this behavior as an extension
rather than a compatibility issue with Matlab, given that it's probably better
to process all escape characters than none.

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