Bug in dlmwrite.m (patch attached)

[David Bateman]

Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
>
cf.

http://octave.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/octave/trunk/octave-forge/TODO?revision=HEAD&view=markup

where it states

<quote>
When transitioning to Octave 3.1
================================
* Remove the functions gtext, ginput, waitforbuttonpress, hex2num, num2hex,
dlmread, dlmwrite, csvread, csvwrite
* Remove dependency of ga on miscellaneous
</quote>

D.

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