From bug-request at octave dot org Tue Jun 14 13:19:44 2005
Subject: Re: x(:,:,1) allowed for 2D matrix but x(:,;,end) not
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: David dot Bateman at motorola dot com
Cc: Keith Goodman <kwgoodman at gmail dot com>, bug@octave.org
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 14:17:03 -0400

On  8-Jun-2005, David Bateman wrote:

| Keith Goodman wrote:
| 
| >>>x = rand(3,5);
| >>>x(:,:,end)
| >>>      
| >>>
| >error: invalid use of end: (index 3, dims 3x5)
| >error: evaluating argument list element number 3
| >  
| >
| >>>x(:,:,1)
| >>>      
| >>>
| >ans =
| >
| >  0.545196  0.293759  0.702723  0.245060  0.551427
| >  0.709630  0.792771  0.300131  0.528911  0.409095
| >  0.481650  0.682950  0.601069  0.040483  0.581705
| >
| >  
| >
| >
| >But 1 is equal to end. I'm using 2.9.3.
| >
| >
| >  
| >
| Try the following patch
| 
| D.
| 
| 2005-05-30  David Bateman <dbateman at free dot fr>
| 
|     * pt-arg-list.cc (F__end__): Allow end keyword for dimensions
|     larger than ndim, and return 1.

I made this change, but without the cast since it should not be needed
here.

Thanks,

jwe



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