Re: Switch statement

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Roy Menachem <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For some reason when I use switch case statement by comparing strings, it
> doesn’t work.
>
> Any idea why? Is there any known problem with a string?
>
> Example:
>
> i=1;
>
> while(i<=parameters_length)
>
>                 switch (txt_data(i,19))   ##txt_data  is array of strings
>
>
>
>                                 case 'T1_ps'
>
>                                                 T1=num_data(i,9);
>
>
>
>                                 case 'T2_ps'
>
>                                                 T2=num_data(i,9);
>
>                                 case 'Min_data'
>
>                                                 min_data=num_data(i,9);
>
>                                 otherwise
>
>                                                 printf("no value\n");
>
>                 endswitch
>
>                 i++;
>
> endwhile
>
>
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Roy
>
>
>
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The issue may not be in the switch-case statements or the comparison
with strings. The following works in 3.4.3
function f(a)
  switch a
   case 'aa'
      disp(a)
   case 'bb'
     disp(a)
   otherwise
     disp("?")
   end
end

octave> f('a')
?
octave> f('aa')
aa
octave> f('bb')
bb


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M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal
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PhD Student
University of Zürich
http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/carbajal/