[Rd] cat with backspace and newline characters

Rui Barradas ruipbarradas at sapo.pt
Fri Nov 1 16:45:35 CET 2013


Hello,

Can't reproduce it, there must be something with your console. I get

 > cat("abc\b")
ab> cat("abc\b\n")
ab
 >


Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas

Em 01-11-2013 11:06, Renaud Gaujoux escreveu:
> Hi,
>
> when mixing newline and backspace characters I get the following output
> (see below). In the second call, the backspace character is simply not
> applied. Is this normal behaviour?
> Thank you.
>
>> cat("abc\b")
> ab> cat("abc\b\n")
> abc
>>
>
> 	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>
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