From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu May 10 11:21:27 2001
Subject: problem with exist(fn)==2 and load(fn); 
From: Alois =?iso-8859-1?Q?Schl=F6gl?= <schloegl at dpmi dot tu-graz dot ac dot at>
To: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 11:20:45 -0500


t.mat is a file within LOADPATH but not within the current directory.
I get the following result

fn='t.mat';
octave:63> exist(fn)
ans = 2
octave:64> load t.mat
error: load: couldn't open input file `t.mat'
error: evaluating index expression near line 64, column 1

Therefore EXIST cannot be used to check the existance of the file fn;
and the following statement does not work.
 if exist(fn)==2, load(fn); end;

IMO, if exist(fn) finds the file, also load should be able to find it.

Sorry, I've no fix for this problem.
   Alois



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