From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Wed Mar 14 09:58:37 2001
Subject: Re: is_scalar conflicts with isstring
From: SZABO Sandor <sszabo at chardonnay dot math dot bme dot hu>
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 16:58:33 +0100

Kai Habel wrote:

> > Does isnumeric give 1 forever?
>
> Hello Sandor,
>
> no, isnumeric should give a true value for scalars and matrices.
>
> Here works everything as expected.
>
> octave-2.1.32:1> implicit_str_to_num_ok = 0
> implicit_str_to_num_ok = 0
> octave-2.1.32:9> isnumeric ("a")
> ans = 0
> octave-2.1.32:10> isnumeric (1.0)
> ans = 1
> octave-2.1.32:11> isnumeric ([1.0 0.8])
> ans = 1
>
> I don't know if its a 2.0.xx problem, so you might switch to the 2.1.33
> version.
>
> Bye Kai
>
> --
> Kai Habel
> mailto:kai dot habel at gmx dot de
> icq: 106872331

I switched to 2.1.33 and isnumeric works well. Thanks.

Sandor Szabo



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