sprintf behavior (PR#9250)
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, michael.bauer at lo-res.org wrote:
Full_Name: Michael Bauer Version: 2.3.1 OS: Mac OS X 10.4.7 Submission from: (NULL) (131.130.124.155)
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sprintf("\p") doesn't show the backslash, this occurs with all strings that
start with certain letters. There is however no explanation to this behavior.
There is: see ?Quote (and C behaves in the same way).
And there seems to be no way to get a guaranteed backslash in sprintf.
"\\", see the FAQ 7.8 for example.
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