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. > "\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 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
