From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Fri Dec 20 16:13:02 2002
Subject: "end" as array index?
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: James Frye <frye at cs dot unr dot edu>
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 16:12:46 -0600

On 20-Dec-2002, James Frye <frye at cs dot unr dot edu> wrote:

| Got what is probably a real dumb newbie question: our lab has a bunch of
| data analysis scripts written for Matlab.  I'm trying to get some of them
| to work under Octave, even though I know next to nothing about Matlab. The
| scripts have a mumber of instances of a construct like
| 
| 	temp (end-3:end) = 0;

This is equivalent to

  temp (length(temp)-3:length(temp)) = 0;

jwe



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