Re: Running Matlog in Octave

[David Bateman]

K. Habel wrote:
> Am 27.10.2009 13:51, schrieb Philipp Leser:
> > Hey;
> >
> > I try to play around with some Vehicle Routing Problems and the 
> > according m. files in the Matlog toolbox 
> > (http://www.ise.ncsu.edu/kay/matlog/). I do not have a license for 
> > MATLAB at home (only at the university), so I wanted to run the 
> > toolbox from Octave. I tried it at the university and the files do 
> > run in MATLAB.
> >
> > The functions vrpsweep and vrpsavings create an error when called 
> > using the simple example presented in the help/comment section in the 
> > header of the file. The error occurs in the first real line of code :
> >
> > "
> >
> > error:
> >
> > error: called from
> >
> >          vrpsavings at line 41 column 1
> >
> > keyboard : stopped in C:\Octave\3.2.2_gcc-4.3.0\bin\matlog\vrpsavings.m
> >
> > debug>
> >
> > "
> >
> > Line 44 column 1 is :
> >
> > error(nargchk(1,6,nargin))
> >
> > Checking nargin in debug mode results in nargin = 2 (as expected). So 
> >   1<nargin<6. Where is the problem? Probably I am dumb, but I don't 
> > know where to start.
> >
> > ThX in advance.
> >
> > P.S.: sorry for my bad English. I am no native speaker.
> >
> >
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> >    
> Hello,
>
> I had the same problem recently, see:
>
> http://www.nabble.com/error%28%29-incompatibility-td25686298.html#a25688267 
>
>
> It has been fixed in the developer sources.
>
> Kai
A workaround would be to replace

error(nargchk(1,6,nargin))

with

str = nargchk (1, 6, nargin);
if (~isempty (str))
 error (str);
end

that should work in Matlab and Octave correctly.

D.


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