On 11-09-01 5:43 PM, William Dunlap wrote:> Is it intentional that the digit 8 is allowed
> in octal escape sequences in character literals?
>
> > "\110" == "\088"
> [1] TRUE
> > "\8" == "\b"
> [1] TRUE
>
> 9's are rejected, so I'd expected 8's to be illegal as well.
It is documented that way in the R-lang manual, but I imagine it's just
a thinko. It's been like that since octal escapes were added in 1998.
I wonder how much will break if I fix it?
Duncan Murdoch
>
> > "\9"
> Error: '\9' is an unrecognized escape in character string
starting "\9"
> > "\091")
> Error: embedded nul in string: '\091'
>
> Bill Dunlap
> Spotfire, TIBCO Software
> wdunlap tibco.com
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.13.1 (2011-07-08)
> Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C
> [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
> [5] LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
> [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C
> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C
> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>
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