another bug? with arrays of structures?

[John W. Eaton]

On  2-May-2005, address@hidden wrote:

| Hi all,
| after Johns patch got one error fixed, I am still having a problem.
| 
| In 2.1.50, the following works:
| a(1).b=4;
| c=a(1);
| a(1)=c;
| (actually I am using this in a function call, like a(1)=f(...), with a(1) 
being a struct.)
| 
| In 2.1.69 I get the following:
| a(1).b=4;
| c=a(1);  << same output as in 2.1.50
| a(1)=c
| octave:8> a(1)=b
| error: field name mismatch in structure assignment
| error: assignment to structure element failed
| error: assignment failed, or no method for `struct = struct'
| error: evaluating assignment expression near line 8, column 5

What is the value of b in the assignment a(1)=b above?

When assigning structures in this way, the RHS value must be a
structure with the same fields as the structure referenced on the LHS
of the assignment.

jwe



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