Bug in dlmwrite.m (patch attached)

Matt Foster matt.p.foster at gmail.com
Mon Jun 23 07:42:42 CDT 2008


On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 1:31 PM, David Bateman
<David.Bateman at motorola.com> wrote:
>
> No "delim" in the help text of the function is a variable as in texinfo
> its flagged as "@var{delim}", and its the means of passing the delimiter
> without defining what the option type is. That is
>
> dlmwrite (file, a, "\t")
>
> is the same as
>
> dlmwrite (file, a, "delimiter", "\t")
>
> The use of @var{} is a standard convention in Octave help strings to
> define the difference between a variable and an option string.
>
> D.

Ahhh, I see. I misunderstood the help. Thanks for the explanation.

Sorry for all the fuss!

Matt

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