From bug-request at octave dot org Thu Sep 23 12:27:41 2004
Subject: Re: [OctDev] strcmp problem in interp1
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: David Bateman <David dot Bateman at motorola dot com>
Cc: octave-dev at lists dot sourceforge dot net, bug@octave.org
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:26:58 -0400

On 23-Sep-2004, David Bateman <David dot Bateman at motorola dot com> wrote:

| Ok, I take it back... Its not a bug in octave-forge, but should be
| considered a bug in 2.1.59 as in matlab R12 I get
| 
| strcmp(NaN, 'test')
| 
| ans =
| 
|      0
| 
| >> strcmp(1,1)
| 
| ans =
| 
|      0
| 
| 
| So numeric arguments are acceptable to matlab and always return
| false...

How about the following change then?

jwe


scripts/ChangeLog:

2004-09-23  John W. Eaton  <jwe at octave dot org>

	* strings/strcmp.m: If args are not strings or cell arrays of
	strings, return zero instead of reporting an error.

 
Index: scripts/strings/strcmp.m
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/octave/scripts/strings/strcmp.m,v
retrieving revision 1.24
diff -u -r1.24 strcmp.m
--- a/scripts/strings/strcmp.m	15 Sep 2004 18:28:56 -0000	1.24
+++ b/scripts/strings/strcmp.m	23 Sep 2004 17:25:20 -0000
 at @ -139,11 +139,7 @@
       else
 	error ("strcmp: nonconformant cell arrays");
       endif
-    else
-      error ("strcmp: expecting args to be strings or cell arrays of strings");
     endif
-  else
-    error ("strcmp: expecting args to be strings or cell arrays of strings");
   endif
 
 endfunction



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