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Could n't access string functions


From: John W. Eaton
Subject: Could n't access string functions
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 21:39:53 -0400

On  5-Sep-2006, Jayaprakash wrote:

| Hello List,
| 
|  I could n't access string functions like strcmp,
| strcat from octave while I could access other
| functions (non string) like fopen etc. 
| --------------------------------------------
| octave:41> help strcmp , 
| 
| help: sorry, `strcmp' is not documented
| 
| octave:41> strcmp("HJH","test")
| error: `strcmp' undefined near line 43 column 1
| 
| 
| I installed precompiled cygwin binary
| (octave-2.1.49-2.tar.bz2)
| 
| I installed in home/myaccount/lib directory and not
| not in /usr/bin. 
| 
| 
| Is there anything I need to install additionally to
| access string functions ? 

How about starting with a newer version of Octave?  2.1.49 is really
old.  Since there is an Octave package for Cygwin now, I would
recommend installing Octave 2.1.73 by using the Cygwin installer.  You
can find Octave in the "math" category when you select packages.

jwe


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