Thread Subject:

What's the difference of \\ and \ when used in sprintf?

Hello

I tried to generate a file name by sprintf as:

filename = sprintf('D:\...\%03d', 1);

and it doesn't work.
Then I changed it into:

filename = sprintf('D:\\...\\%03d',1);

and it works.
So what's happening here?
Thanks guys

Jixin

On 6/30/2013 8:03 PM, Jixin wrote:
...

> I tried to generate a file name by sprintf as:
>
> filename = sprintf('D:\...\%03d', 1);
>
> and it doesn't work.
...
> filename = sprintf('D:\\...\\%03d',1);
>
> and it works.
> So what's happening here?
...

doc sprintf

page down in the format spec section on 'Escape characters' and all will
become clear...

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dpb <none@non.net> wrote in message <kqqnt1$p84$1@speranza.aioe.org>...
> On 6/30/2013 8:03 PM, Jixin wrote:
> ...
>
> > I tried to generate a file name by sprintf as:
> >
> > filename = sprintf('D:\...\%03d', 1);
> >
> > and it doesn't work.
> ...
> > filename = sprintf('D:\\...\\%03d',1);
> >
> > and it works.
> > So what's happening here?
> ...
>
> doc sprintf
>
> page down in the format spec section on 'Escape characters' and all will
> become clear...
>
> --

Thanks dpb :)