PR# 15042 hex and octal characters in strings are not supported (decimal work)

Problem Report Summary

Submitter: soapy2357

Category: Compiler

Priority: Medium

Date: 2008/11/24

Class: Bug

Severity: Non-critical

Number: 15042

Release: EiffelStudio 6 (6.3.7.5403 GPL Edition - windows)

Confidential: No

Status: Open

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Environment: EiffelStudio 6 (6.3.7.5403 GPL Edition - Windows XP SP3) with Microsoft Windows SDK v6.1 as required

Synopsis: hex and octal characters in strings are not supported (decimal work)

Description

IO.put_string ("A%/66/C%N") -- works
IO.put_string ("A%/0x42/C%N") -- compilation error
IO.put_string (('%/0x42/').out + "%N") -- works
IO.put_string ("A%/0c102/C%N") -- compilation error
IO.put_string (('%/0c102/').out + "%N") -- works

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