From bug-request at octave dot org Wed Dec  7 14:07:10 2005
Subject: str2num.m can't handle LF character.
From: "Frederick (Rick) A Niles" <fniles at mitre dot org>
To: bug at octave dot org
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 14:03:35 -0600

I can't believe no one has come across this one.

> str2num('0\r')
ans = [](0x0)


The problem is that str2num.m is implemented using the eval function and
the line feed character seems to confuse that we're asking to be eval'd

Anyway, seems like this would be really common when trying to read in
data from Windows/DOS sources that have "/r" in the line termination.

This there a easy hack to the str2num.m that would make this work for
me?  Should this be fixed in the distro?  I'm running 2.1.72.

Thanks,

Rick Niles.



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