Re: can't perform indexing operations for <unknown type> type

[Mike Miller]

On Mon, 23 May 2005, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 23-May-2005, Mike Miller wrote:
>
> | Is it possible that these problems are caused by a character in your
> | script that you cannot see?  Every once in a while this happens to me.
> | That one line that you could not paste into the e-mail might contain some
> | sort of control character.  A fairly common problem is the carriage return
> | or ^M character.
>
> It's possible, but I'm running the script that I saved from the 
> attachment, so presumably, that would have included such characters?

Must be.  Sorry - I didn't notice the attachment.


> If the problem is a CRLF pair, then I think that is a bug.  Octave 
> should accept CRLF or LF as an end of line character.  So if you have a 
> problem like this, please report it.

The problem that sometimes occurs (not necessarily with Octave) is that 
there are CRLF pairs in the file, but then the file is edited and the CR 
moves away from the LF.

Mike



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