Re: error in documentation ?

[Rob Mahurin]

On Mar 21, 2009, at 1:15 PM, Alain Baeckeroot wrote:

> Dear all
>
> I think there is an arror in documentation, wrt 'system' function :
>  GNU Octave, version 3.0.1
>  Octave was configured for "i486-pc-linux-gnu".
>
> http://www.math.utah.edu/docs/info/octave_26.html    says :
> [output, status] = system ("echo foo; exit 2");

That looks like documentation to a very old version of Octave.
Try http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter
or "help" from the prompt.

> But it seems the order is the opposite:
> octave:20> [output, status] = system ("echo foo; exit 2")
> output =  2
> status = foo
>
> This is annoying as one cannot get directly the output.


octave:7> function output = mysystem(string); [status, output] =  
system(string); endfunction
octave:8> mysystem("echo foo; exit 2")
ans = foo

Does that do what you wanted?

Rob

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