From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Wed Oct 18 14:08:34 2000
Subject: hex2dec.m hangs v 2.1.31 (i586-pc-cygwin)
From: Ed Suominen <ed at eepatents dot com>
To: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 14:08:22 -0500

hex2dec.m hangs my installation of Octave. No help for it but to exit the 
program and start it again. CTRL+C doesn't work. Running on Win 2000, 
everything else works fine. (Except having to run scripts and functions 
repeatedly with errors until everything compiles, but that's another post.)

No problem with dec2hex.m

Ed Suominen
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VERSION:
GNU Octave, version 2.1.31 (i586-pc-cygwin).

SAMPLE HISTORY:
octave:6> type hex2dec
hex2dec is the user-defined function defined from: 
/usr/local/share/octave/2.1.31/m/strings/h
ex2dec.m
## Copyright (C) 1996 Kurt Hornik
##
## This file is part of Octave.
##
## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
## any later version.
##
## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
## General Public License for more details.
##
## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
## along with Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the Free
## Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA
## 02111-1307, USA.
## -*- texinfo -*-
##  at deftypefn {Function File} {} hex2dec (@var{s})
## Return the decimal number corresponding to the hexadecimal number stored
## in the string  at var{s} dot   For example,
##
##  at example
## hex2dec ("12B")
##       at result{} 299
## hex2dec ("12b")
##       at result{} 299
##  at end example
##  at end deftypefn
## Author: Kurt Hornik <Kurt dot Hornik at ci dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
## Adapted-By: jwe
function d = hex2dec (h)
   if (nargin != 1)
     usage ("hex2dec (x)");
   endif
   if (isstr (h))
     nr = rows (h);
     d = zeros (nr, 1);
     for i = 1:nr
       s = h (i, :);
       if (isxdigit (s))
         tmp = sscanf (s, "%x");
         if (isempty (tmp))
           error ("hex2dec: invalid conversion");
         else
           d (i) = tmp;
         endif
       else
         error ("hex2dec: argument must be a string of hexadecimal digits");
       endif
     endfor
   else
     error ("hex2dec: expecting a string argument");
   endif
endfunction
octave:7> hex2dec ("12b")

...and then to the abyss...

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Hope this is helpful.



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