"end" as array index?

[John W. Eaton]

On 20-Dec-2002, James Frye <address@hidden> wrote:

| Got what is probably a real dumb newbie question: our lab has a bunch of
| data analysis scripts written for Matlab.  I'm trying to get some of them
| to work under Octave, even though I know next to nothing about Matlab. The
| scripts have a mumber of instances of a construct like
| 
|       temp (end-3:end) = 0;

This is equivalent to

  temp (length(temp)-3:length(temp)) = 0;

jwe



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