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Re: spaces and strings


From: Paul Laub
Subject: Re: spaces and strings
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 17:32:54 -0800

Brian, 

Try this

>> mark_as_command("lhooq")

where lhooq.m is an m-file describing a function. 

With my Octave 2.1.57 in Cygwin, it appears that 

>> lhooq 1 2 3 

only takes the first argument into the function.   

Paul Laub

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 20:00:30 -0500, Brian Blais <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> In Matlab, the default behavior for commands without parentheses is to
> pass the argument as a string, like:
> 
> help ls
> 
> more on
> 
> now, this seems to work for some commands in octave, but certainly not
> for user-defined .m files.  Is there a reason for this?  Is this a
> parser limitation, or something else?  I find it a slight inconvenience,
> but I think it can be discouraging for some people coming from Matlab,
> and having their scripts break for this reason.
> 
>                                 Brian Blais
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