matlab octave matrices

[John W. Eaton]

On 28-Mar-2007, skenny wrote:

| 
| hi,
| 
| i'm very new to octave and am trying to convert some code from matlab into
| octave. i am getting this error:
| 
| octave:5> INCAMrunScript
| warning: in CutSpikeTrains.m near line 20, column 12:
| warning: implicit conversion from matrix to string
| warning: implicit conversion from matrix to string
| error: MATLAB:deal:narginNargoutMismatch

That's a strange error for an Octave function.  Is your "deal" from
Octave?  What version of Octave are you using?

| error: evaluating if command near line 41, column 3
| error: evaluating if command near line 38, column 1
| error: called from `deal' in file `deal.m'
| error: evaluating assignment expression near line 34, column 15
| 
| deal is called like this:
| 
| [Tos{1:N-1}] = deal(TT{setdiff(1:N,nr)});
| 
| this works in matlab but not in octave and i believe it has to do with how
| the matrix being passed is formatted; but i'm not sure...was wondering if
| someone might have some insight??

This syntax works in recent 2.9.x versions of Octave, which should
also have a working deal function.

jwe