Re: wavread problems

[Robert A. Macy]

I thought it was, since the following error messages relate
to missing values and undefined values, where the \n causes
a single printout line and back to the prompt.

I don't know what you mean about clever formatting

         - Robert -


On Wed, 11 May 2005 12:28:26 -0700
 Keith Goodman <address@hidden> wrote:
> Are you sure it is attempting the code? It should just be
> unwinding
> the stack of functions that called the error line and at
> each one
> printing out the line and column numbers.
> 
> I find it difficult, by the way, to visually unwind the
> error
> messages. Would clever formatting help?
> 
> On 5/11/05, Robert A. Macy <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Interestingly, on 2.1.50 binary the phrase...
> > error("need two arguments");
> > ...after an if() test DOES NOT return you from the
> > function.  octave attempts the rest of the code.
> > However,...
> > error("need two arguments\n");
> > ...does return you and the rest of the code is NOT
> > attempted.
> > 
> >             - Robert -
> > 
> > On Wed, 11 May 2005 13:08:04 -0400
> >  "John W. Eaton" <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > On 11-May-2005, Doug Stewart wrote:
> > >
> > > BTW, you can write
> > >
> > >   error ("%s is not a WAV file", wavefile);
> > >
> > > instead of using sprintf because the error function
> > > processes
> > > arguments the same as printf.
> > >
> > > jwe
> > 
> >
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