From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Mon Dec 30 11:29:39 2002
Subject: Re: Strings not compatible with Matlab?
From: "Henry F. Mollet" <mollet at pacbell dot net>
To: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>, James Frye <frye@cs.unr.edu>
Cc: Octave_post <help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 09:30:55 -0800

I'm  having a hard time to get started with octave. I've tried args
('hello') first on Mac and then on PC:

[Henry-Mollets-Computer:~] mollet% octave
GNU Octave, version 2.1.35 (powerpc-apple-darwin6.2).
Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 John W. Eaton.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details, type `warranty'.

octave:1> args ('hello')
error: `args' undefined near line 1 column 1
error: evaluating index expression near line 1, column 1

SAME result on PC with GNU Octave-version 2.1.36 (i686 - pc - cygwin)
Henry

> 
> In any case, the function
> 
> Does the following for me when run in Matlab:
> 
>>> args ('hello')
> argc = 5
> arg 1 = h
> arg 2 = e
> arg 3 = l
> arg 4 = l
> arg 5 = o
> 
> and Octave (2.1.40):
> 
> octave:1> args ('hello')
> argc = 5
> arg 1 = h
> arg 2 = e
> arg 3 = l
> arg 4 = l
> arg 5 = o
> 
> Seems to behave the same in both.
> 
> Can you provide a better example of something that doesn't work in a
> compatible way?
> 
> If you think you have found a bug, can you please submit a complete
> bug report to the bug-octave mailing list?  If you're not sure what to
> include in a complete report, please read the bugs chapter of the
> Octave manual (you can find a copy at www.octave.org/bugs.html).
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> jwe
> 
> 
> 
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