From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Thu Feb  5 14:41:40 2004
Subject: Re: Warnings when loading strings stored in MAT5 format
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Luke Sjulson <sjl2001 at med dot cornell dot edu>
Cc: Quentin Spencer <qspencer at ieee dot org>, bug-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 14:40:48 -0600

On  5-Feb-2004, Luke Sjulson <sjl2001 at med dot cornell dot edu> wrote:

| There's a variable called warn_num_to_str, which can be set to zero.  
| This will disable the warning.  You can put the line
| 
| warn_num_to_str = 0;
| 
| in your .octaverc file, and that should take care of it.

Yes, that would be a quick fix to avoid the annoying warnings, but you
should not have to do that.  Here is a patch that avoids the warning
from load while not forcing you to turn off the warning globally
(which might not be what you want).

jwe


src/ChangeLog:

 2004-02-05  John W. Eaton  <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
 
	* ls-mat5.cc (read_mat5_binary_element): For character
          strings, force conversion from numeric data.


Index: src/ls-mat5.cc
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/octave/src/ls-mat5.cc,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -r1.5 ls-mat5.cc
--- src/ls-mat5.cc	23 Jan 2004 20:04:36 -0000	1.5
+++ src/ls-mat5.cc	5 Feb 2004 20:27:49 -0000
 at @ -508,7 +508,7 @@
 	tc = re;
 
       if (arrayclass == mxCHAR_CLASS)
-	tc = tc.convert_to_str ();
+	tc = tc.convert_to_str (false, true);
     }
 
   is.seekg (pos + static_cast<std::streamoff> (element_length));



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