Re: Variable names

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On 19/giu/08, at 07:23, Thomas Weber wrote:

> On 18/06/08 16:49 -0700, asha g wrote:
> > I am trouble shooting my program and was wondering if the fact that I
> > have variables named vinf, minf etc were confusing the program. At  
> > one
> > pt when I ran it in Matlab I did get an error message saying warning:
> > division by zero even though the program does not have this.
>
> That doesn't mean much, this can very well happen in one of the core  
> (=
> shipped with the product) functions. If the behaviour is repeatable,
> disp() and keyboard() are your friends:
>
> disp(i) in a "for i=..." loop will tell you where you are and  
> keyboard()
> can help you inspect your values.
>
>         Thomas

also

>> debug_on_warning (1)

will tell Octave to stop at the location where
the division by zero has occurred as if you had
placed a "keyboard" command there

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