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Make Octave behave more like Matlab
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
Make Octave behave more like Matlab |
Date: |
Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:22:29 -0500 |
On 16-Feb-2007, Matthias Brennwald wrote:
| I use Octave to develop code that is intended to run on both Octave
| and Matlab. I found that Octave sometimes does things that Matlab
| won't. For example:
|
|
| 1. Strings can be defined with single or double quotes in Octave,
| while Matlab only accepts single quotes. For instance, this will work
| in Octave, but not in Matlab:
|
| myString = "Hello";
Have you reported this bug to the MathWorks?
| 2. switch / case statements: Matlab requires a comma after the case
| statements, Octave doesn't. For instance, the following will work in
| Octave, but not in Matlab (which requires commas after 'red' and
| otherwse):
|
| color = 'green';
| switch color
| case 'red'
| disp('It is red.');
| otherwise
| disp('It is not red.');
| end
|
|
| My problem with this is that when I test my code with Octave, I don't
| get any errors or warnings, but then I get complaints from Matlab
| users because I wrote something that Matlab does not like. Is there a
| way to make Octave act more like Matlab?
Octave 2.9.9:
octave2.9:1> warning error Octave:matlab-incompatible
octave2.9:2> StudlyCapsConsideredHardToRead = "Hello";
error: potential Matlab compatibility problem: " used as string delimiter
and
octave2.9:2> color = 'green';
octave2.9:3> switch color
> case 'red'
> disp('It is red.');
> otherwise
> disp('It is not red.');
> end
It is not red.
so I guess this one isn't flagged.
I don't really care whether there is a warning here or not, but I
would consider a patch.
jwe