Re: Detecting Octave

[John C. Campbell]

Eyal Doron <address@hidden> wrote:

| Hi,
|    I would like an .m file to detect if its running under Matlab or
| Octave. Anybody have a generic solution?
| 
| Before you start, things like
| 
| if exist(whitespace_in_literal_matrix)

I put the following in my .octaverc

if exist('whitespace_in_literal_matrix')
  foobar = 1
else
  foobar = 0
end

When I start Octave I see foobar = 1.  I put the same code in my
startup.m and in MATLAB I see foobar = 0.  Is this what you wanted? 

John Campbell


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John C. Campbell                    :  
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University of Wisconsin-Madison     :  
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