escape sequence with msprintf

[Iai Masafumi ax]

Hello,

>From msprintf(), I got the output pasted below, which seems strange. I
expected the two backslashes at the beginning was interpreted as a
single backslash. However, msprintf() converted the sequence of 2nd and
3rd characters, "\t", into a tab. Isn't this a bug? Or any other
explanation?

On the other hand, mprintf() appears handling the escape sequences as I
expected.


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-->txt="\\theta", a=msprintf(txt), ascii(a), mprintf(txt)
txt =

\\theta
a =

\ heta
ans =

92. 9. 104. 101. 116. 97.
\theta
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I use Scilab 5.3.3 32bit on Windows7.

Iai