From bug-request at octave dot org Mon Jul 25 12:33:21 2005
Subject: sort( [] )  returns error
From: "Hall, Benjamin" <benjamin dot hall at pw dot utc dot com>
To: "'bug at octave dot org'" <bug@octave.org>
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 12:07:34 -0500

I currently only have access to octave-2.1.64, but ran into the following
unexpected behavior

octave:2> a = sort( [] )
error: value on right hand side of assignment is undefined
error: evaluating assignment expression near line 2, column 3

of course, the same for

[a,b] = sort( [] )

I expected an empty matrices in return.  (Matlab quietly returns empty
matrices)

I tried to poke through the sort.cc, but it was over my head.

Thanks!



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