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How can a script tell if it's running on Octave or Matlab?
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
How can a script tell if it's running on Octave or Matlab? |
Date: |
Fri, 25 Sep 1998 10:48:27 -0500 (CDT) |
On 25-Sep-1998, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:
| I found
| a difference in the default behavior of the str2num function. Will
| this be stable?
|
| I ran the following on Matlab and Octave:
| v=version
| vn=str2num(version)
|
| Matlab (extraneous vertical space deleted):
| v = 5.1.0.421
| vn = 5.1000 0 0.4210
|
| Octave (somewhat less extraneous vertical space deleted):
| v = 2.0.13
| vn = [](0x0)
Octave's str2num function works more like the one from Matlab 4.x, not
5.x.
jwe