Re: [Gretl-users] strings and filenames
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>
> According to the user's guide, the "\" character isn't
"special"
> within sprintf, but it seems to be causing some problems here.
Backslash is special in printf and sprintf: it's the escape character, and it must
be
doubled to get a literal backslash. "\%" means a literal percent sign, which is
why
the 'foo' variable was rejected (there being no corresponding conversion
specifier). If there's a statement to the contrary in the User's Guide, it's
wrong.
My bad -- the "not special" nature is with string literals (p. 116), not
printf/sprintf.
As a general comment, you're better using forward slashes in
filenames, even on
Windows.
Good to know -- I get the expected behavior with this (also, of course with the
double-backslash).
Many thanks, Allin!
PS