From bug-request at octave dot org Thu Dec  8 13:13:23 2005
Subject: Re: Can I submit a ver.m and license.m?
From: Bill Denney <denney at seas dot upenn dot edu>
To: William Poetra Yoga Hadisoeseno <williampoetra at gmail dot com>
cc: bug at octave dot org
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 14:12:13 -0500 (EST)

On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, William Poetra Yoga Hadisoeseno wrote:

> On 11/30/05, John W. Eaton <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu> wrote:
>> Also, it seems that for x = ver, Matlab returns a structure with the
>> fields Name, Version, Release, and Date.  I think it would be best for
>> ver.m to always build that structure, then either return or display it
>> depending on whether nargout == 0.
>
> Oh, I didn't know about this behaviour. The documentation says that we
> need to supply a string (as in x = ver('product') to get a return
> structure. How does Matlab actually behave?

In Matlab 7.0SP2, any output arguements give the full structure:

>> a = ver
a =
1x20 struct array with fields:
     Name
     Version
     Release
     Date
>>

Bill

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