Writing a percentage sign in early days of MATLAB

To write a percentage sign has it always been %% or in the early days of MATLAB was it /%? If you have a source or link to documentation that would be great. Google turned up nothing.

[Joseph Cheng]

Where are you writing your % sign? GUI, plot text, etc?

[dpb]

How early is "early"?

I've been using since V3 and don't recall anything else...I think I did finally toss the manuals, though. I had an earlier version but was doing embedded systems in Forth then so wasn't using Matlab at that time so couldn't say with any certainty at all about before the Windows release that I did use quite a bit.

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[John]

Where are you writing your % sign? GUI, plot text, etc?

The command line in general so using stuff like fprintf and sprintf.

How early is "early"?

I've been using since V3 and don't recall anything else...I think I did finally toss the manuals, though. I had an earlier version but was doing embedded systems in Forth then so wasn't using Matlab at that time so couldn't say with any certainty at all about before the Windows release that I did use quite a bit.

That is early enough! Thanks for the answer! I guess it always has been that way after all.

[dpb]

The "\" is the escape character for TeX but I don't believe '%' is reserved there, is it? So my response was for formatting strings which I'm sure have always been that way as it is C-Standard which is where that (abominable) syntax comes from...

[Walter Roberson]

In formatting such as fprintf() I would be surprised if it was ever \% as the formats are clearly derived from C and C has always used %%