From help-request at octave dot org Mon Jan 31 11:01:22 2005
Subject: Re: Newbie, MATLAB, {-indexing incompatibility
From: David Bateman <David dot Bateman at motorola dot com>
To: F L <kirjeet at hotmail dot com>
Cc: help at octave dot org
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 18:02:53 +0100

F L wrote:

> Hey,
>
> I found nice MATLAB-code and installed GNU Octave 2.1.50 (for 
> Windows). '--traditional' seems to be on by default.
>
> Some of the code runs. Some doesn't. Here is an offending piece of 
> MATLAB-code:
>
> Vname = [];
> lnames = [];
>
> l=1;
> for i=1:neqs;
> for m=1:nlag;
>    Vname{l}  = str2mat(['variable ',num2str(i)]);
>    lnames{l} = str2mat(['  lag',num2str(m)]);
> l = l+1;
> end;
> end;
>
>
> The first innermost line Vname{l}  = str2mat(['variable ',num2str(i)]);
> in for-loops contains error according to Octave, but it is supposed to 
> run in MATLAB.
> I don't know MATLAB-language. What's the left side of assignment 
> supposed to do and how I can circumvent this problem?
>
> error: matrix cannot be indexed with {
> error: assignment failed, or no method for `matrix = string'
> error: evaluating assignment expression near line 93, column 14
> error: evaluating for command near line 92, column 1
> error: evaluating for command near line 91, column 1
> error: evaluating if command near line 81, column 1
> error: evaluating switch command near line 47, column 1
>
> _

This works in 2.1.64...

D.

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