Bug in dlmwrite.m (patch attached)

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 1:50 PM, David Bateman
<David.Bateman at motorola.com> wrote:
> Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Matt Foster <matt.p.foster at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I found a small bug in octave-forge's dlmwrite.m, whereby it wouldn't accept
>>> 'delim', as an option.
>>> I've made a patch against SVN head, and it's attached.
>>>
>>> Please let me known If i should send this elsewhere.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> OctaveForge has a mailing list of its own: <octave-dev at lists.sf.net>.
>> I've applied your patch.
>>
>> regards
>>
>>
>>
>
> But dlmwrite was imported into Octave 3.1.x so sending it to
> bug at octave.org is also reasonable.. However, looking at
>
> http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/index.html?/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/dlmwrite.html
>
> "delim" is not documented as a valid option to dlmwrite for matlab and
> so I don't see this as compatibility issue. Sure we might accept "delim"
> as well, but is it necessary?
>

Hm, I see I was too rush. Based on the fact that OP identified this as
a "bug", I thought this was a missing documented Matlab feature. Sigh.
Nevertheless, given that dlmwrite was taken into Octave (which I
forgot), the OctaveForge version should probably be removed as soon as
it is first released in Octave.


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