Re: Make Octave behave more like Matlab

[Matthias Brennwald]

On 17.02.2007, at 19:08, address@hidden wrote:

> 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

AND

On 18.02.2007, at 20:30, John W. Eaton wrote:

> Also, in 2.1.x, this warning is controlled by a built-in variable
> called warn_matlab_incompatible.

Ok, that's exactly what I need. I have both Octave 2.1 and 2.9 on my  
machine, so I tried putting the following into my .octaverc file:

***************
vers = OCTAVE_VERSION; vers = vers(1:3);
switch vers
    case '2.1'
        warn_matlab_incompatible=1;
    case '2.9'
        warning error Octave:matlab-incompatible;
    otherwise
        warning('.OCTAVERC: don''t know how to turn on warnings for  
Matlab incompatibility.')
end
***************

This works ok with Octave 2.9, but I get an error with 2.1:

***************
parse error near line 12 of file /Users/mbrennwa/.octaverc

  syntax error

>>>         warning error Octave:matlab-incompatible;
***************

What can I do about this?

Matthias


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