From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Mon Dec 30 11:39:26 2002
Subject: Re: Strings not compatible with Matlab?
From: "John B. Thoo" <jb2 at ms dot yuba dot cc dot ca dot us>
To: "Henry F. Mollet" <mollet at pacbell dot net>
Cc: Octave_post <help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 09:39:22 -0800

On Monday, December 30, 2002, at 09:30 AM, Henry F. Mollet wrote:

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

Hi.  I'm new to Octave, myself, so I may not know of what I speak, but I 
think that "args" is a function that James defined:


% test function to echo string arguments

########################################
function args (argv)

argc = length (argv);
printf ("argc = %d\n", argc);

for i = 1:argc
   printf ("arg %d = %s\n", i, argv (i));
end
endfunction
########################################


So I think you need to enter that in first before you try "args 
('hello')".

HTH.  Cheers.

---John.



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