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Re: Change in behavior of string constants? [message #1642 is a reply to message #1641]

Wed, 05 January 1994 12:01

ryba
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In article <2ges7f$3qf@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca>, djackson@ibd.nrc.ca (Dick Jackson) writes:
|> With version 3.1, the backslash notation became obsolete, and you could
|> now use STRING(202B) instead of "\xca". It's true that there was no
|> change in the documentation, which for 3.1 still describes the
|> backslash notation.
|>
|> The explanation I got from RSI Tech Support was that, with the
|> inclusion of Windows support, the backslash is now commonly seen as the
|> directory delimiter in filenames, and the octal/hex notation had to go.
|> I welcome clarification if needed.

I got the same answer from Tech Support today...I certainly would have
appreciated a heads-up on this. I edited my string call and format
statement to read:

tlab = string(flight, pass, desc, ihroll, string(202b), $
format = '("Flight ",i0," Pass ",i0," - ",a,","' + $
',f5.1,a1," Roll")')

This works.

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Dr. Marty Ryba | Generation X:
MIT Lincoln Laboratory | Too young to be cynical,
ryba@ll.mit.edu | too old to be optimistic.
Of course nothing I say here is official policy, and Laboratory affiliation is
for identification purposes only, blah, blah, blah....

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		Re: Change in behavior of string constants? By: knipp on Wed, 05 January 1994 06:36
		Re: Change in behavior of string constants? By: ryba on Wed, 05 January 1994 12:01
		Re: Change in behavior of string constants? By: djackson on Wed, 05 January 1994 09:09

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