From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Mon Dec 30 12:11:09 2002
Subject: Re: Strings not compatible with Matlab?
From: "Henry F. Mollet" <mollet at pacbell dot net>
To: "John B. Thoo" <jb2 at ms dot yuba dot cc dot ca dot us>
Cc: Octave_post <help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 10:11:26 -0800

Many  thanks, now worked like a charm.
Henry

on 12/30/02 9:39 AM, John B. Thoo at jb2 at ms dot yuba dot cc dot ca dot us wrote:

> 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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