Re: Error on a simple struct assignment

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Eric Salemi
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm working with Octave 3.2.2 on a windows XP machine. I type the
> following 3 commands and get a error after the 3rd (you'll notice the
> 2nd and 3rd commands are exactly the same):
>
>  > s = struct;
>
>  > s(1,1,1).field1 = 0
> s =
> {
>   field1 = 0
> }
>
>  > s(1,1,1).field1 = 0
> error: invalid assignment to cs-list outside multiple assignment.
> error: assignment failed, or no method for `struct = scalar'
>
> Maybe there is something I don't understand, but I don't see why Octave
> consider s(1,1,1).field1 as a cs-list in the 3rd command. As a side
> note, doing the same with (2,2,2) as index works flawlessly. Can I
> consider this issue a bug? Is there a workaround?
>
> Eric.
>
>

Works for me with both 3.2.3 and 3.3.50+. I suggest you try 3.2.3.

hth

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