Setting output precision.

[Jason Cipriani]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 7:17 PM, John W. Eaton <jwe at octave.org> wrote:
> On 10-Dec-2008, Jason Cipriani wrote:
>
> | I have Octave 3.0.0 for Windows. When I try to set output_precision it says:
> |
> | warning: output_precision is no longer a built-in variable; please
> | read the NEWS file or type `news' for details
> |
> | This is all good and well but 10 pages of news doesn't help me see 2
> | decimal points instead of 1. I gave up around something about how the
> | search paths have changed and something about pipes to gnuplot. I saw
> | something mentioned about built-in variables being changed to
> | functions, but:
> |
> |  output_precision(2)
> |
> | Just said:
> |
> |   Invalid vector index: 2
>
> That will happen if you create a variable called "output_precision" by
> doing something like
>
>  output_precision = 2;
>
> and then try to get the second element of the output_precision array
> by doing
>
>  output_precision (2)
>
> since the ouptut_precision variable you created only has one element.

Ah ha! Now it works. Thanks for pointing that out!

Jason


> | And "help output_precision" says it's not documented, so....... I
> | guess the output_precision change was left out of the news? How do I
> | set the output precision now?
>
> Try
>
>  clear output_precision
>  output_precision (2)
>
> or restart Octave and just type
>
>  output_precision (2)
>
> jwe
>