[Gretl-devel] Re: issue with conditional assignment
On Thu, 6 Feb 2020, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Am 06.02.2020 um 12:35 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti:
> works ok, but the conditional assignment statement
>
> <hansl>
> string sep = $windows ? "\" : "/"
> </hansl>
>
> gives an error, because the backslash is considered an escaping
> character. This breaks the xy_color packages (and possibly some more).
The thread in December "problem with sprintf in ternary statement" looks
related. Allin fixed a bug there by removing a special-casing treatment
of \" , but this may be a side effect.
Yes, it must be. I'll take another look at that.
Allin