From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Wed Jan 27 14:10:50 1999 Subject: Re: Octave 2.1.10 and 2.1.12 string save bug From: "A. Scottedward Hodel" To: Joao Cardoso , John Eaton CC: bug-octave Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 14:10:40 -0600 (CST) [This bug will be fixed in 2.1.13 --jwe] jwe octave-2.1.10:1> po = "mystring" po = mystring octave-2.1.10:2> save a po error: invalid conversion from string to real matrix octave-2.1.10:2> implicit_str_to_num_ok implicit_str_to_num_ok = 0 octave-2.1.10:3> implicit_str_to_num_ok = 1 implicit_str_to_num_ok = 1 octave-2.1.10:4> save a po octave-2.1.10:5> exit edalf:/S4/hodel $ more a # Created by Octave 2.1.10, Wed Jan 27 19:48:00 1999 ... # name: po # type: matrix # rows: 1 # columns: 8 109 121 115 116 114 105 110 103 A S Hodel Assoc. Prof. Dept Elect Eng, Auburn Univ,AL 36849-5201 On leave at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (256) 544-1426 Address until 15 Mar 2000:Mail Code ED-13, MSFC, Alabama, 35812 http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~scotte ---------- >From: Joao Cardoso >To: John Eaton >Cc: bug-octave >Subject: Octave 2.1.10 and 2.1.12 string save bug >Date: Wed, Jan 27, 1999, 1:01 PM > >Hi, > >In both 2.1.10 and 2.1.12 the following fail: > >octave-2.1.12:1> a="pois" >a = pois >octave-2.1.12:2> save po a >error: invalid conversion from string to real matrix >octave-2.1.12:2> > >in 2.1.7 it works OK: > >octave-2.1.7:1> a="pois" >a = pois >octave-2.1.7:2> save po a >octave-2.1.7:3> a="" >a = >octave-2.1.7:4> save po a >octave-2.1.7:5> quit > >Joao >-- >Joao Cardoso | e-mail: jcardoso at inescn dot pt >INESC, R. Jose Falcao 110 | tel: + 351 2 2094322 >4050 Porto, Portugal | fax: + 351 2 2008487 >