[Gretl-devel] Re: problem with sprintf in ternary statement

On Mon, 23 Dec 2019, Sven Schreiber wrote:

> # short form with anonymous sprintf > string snull = 1 ? sprintf("\"hey\"") : "null"    # error > print snull > </hansl> Hmm, it turns out we were special-casing the interpretation of backslash+double-quote in the context of the ternary query operator. On disabling that special treatment your example works fine. Since I can't think of any good reason to maintain the special case I've now disabled it in git. I haven't yet run all my regression tests to verify that this change doesn't break any old formulations but I'll do so before long.