Re: genpath not working?

[James Sherman Jr.]

Sorry forgot to forward the list.

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From: James Sherman Jr. <address@hidden
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Date: Aug 2, 2007 2:19 PM
Subject: Re: genpath not working?
To: "address@hidden" <address@hidden
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As far as I know, genpath doesn't actually modify your load path at all (which is what you seem to think it should do).  As I interpret it, it just returns a string with all the directories and subdirectories separated by colons(or whatever your system uses to separate directories in a path, which is returned by pathsep).  So if you wanted to add all subdirectories of your current directory to your path you could do something like:

addpath(genpath('./'));

What it should do, as you say, is what it does. ;)

James Sherman

On 8/2/07, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi, genpath should generate a path with input dir and its subdirs.
In the example bellow it does not work. Is this function really working?

octave-2.9.9:30> genpath('/usr/local/share/octave/2.1.73/site/m/octave-forge');
octave-2.9.9:31> which legend
which: `legend' is undefined
octave-2.9.9:32>
addpath('/usr/local/share/octave/2.1.73/site/m/octave-forge/plot');
octave-2.9.9:33> which legend
legend is the user-defined function from the file
/usr/local/share/octave/2.1.73/site/m/octave-forge/plot/legend.m

The various subdirs from
/usr/local/share/octave/2.1.73/site/m/octave-forge
also do not appear at the output of path function.
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