Re: Strange?

[Ian McCallion]

On Tue, 10 Mar 2020 at 08:22, address@hidden
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Dear listmembers,
> I am currently trying to go through the documentation - it's something like 
> 1000 pages, so this takes time :-). I am using octave 5.2.0. When I say
>
> >> A=5;
> >> A
> A =  5
> >> isvarname (A)
> ans  =  0
>
> shouldn't this be "1" rather than "0"? The manual states "Return true if name 
> is a valid variable name". In my example I consider "A" a valid variable 
> name, isn't it? So, could you shed some light on what I am doing wrong here?

you need to say:

   isvarname('a')

Cheers... Ian