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Character strings in Octave can be denoted with double or single quotes. There is a subtle difference between the two in that escaped characters like <tt>\n</tt> (newline), <tt>\t</tt> (tab), etc are interpreted in double quoted strings but not single quoted strings. This difference is important on Windows platforms where the <tt>\</tt> character is used in path names, and so single quoted strings should be used in paths. Matlab doesn't have double quoted strings and so they should be avoided if the code will be transferred to a Matlab user. | Character strings in Octave can be denoted with double or single quotes. There is a subtle difference between the two in that escaped characters like <tt>\n</tt> (newline), <tt>\t</tt> (tab), etc are interpreted in double quoted strings but not single quoted strings. This difference is important on Windows platforms where the <tt>\</tt> character is used in path names, and so single quoted strings should be used in paths. Matlab doesn't have double quoted strings and so they should be avoided if the code will be transferred to a Matlab user. | ||
==GUI== | |||
This is a small section but it's probably one of the most frequent questions. | |||
===Is there a GUI for octave?=== | |||
No. | |||
===Is there a GUI planned for octave?=== | |||
Yes but it's still in development though. You can try to download the gui branch of octave and compile it yourself. Seems to be stable enough. | |||
===How come there's still no GUI for octave?=== | |||
The octave prompt is really really good. Also, some people are of the opinion that a GUI actually slows down the learning of the language. | |||
Also, octave is a community project. It has the functionalities that its users are willing to spend time working on. The fact there's no GUI for octave only shows that there's no enough interest on it (despite the ammount of times this question shows up). | |||