Distinguishing Octave from Matlab

[José Luis García Pallero]

Here, you have possible solutions:

http://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/help-octave/2007-April/003809.html
http://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/help-octave/2007-May/003814.html

2009/2/19 Pablo <arnoques at gmail.com>

> Sorry to bump in, but I was looking for a way to distinguish octave
> from matlab, and I found this thread, with the solution provided by
> Ben Abbott:
>
> > Distinguishing between Matlab and Octave may be done as,
> >
> >       v = ver;
> >       if (strcmpi(v(1).Name,'matlab')
> >         % Matlab code here
> >       elseif (strcmpi(v(1).Name,'octave')
> >         % Octave code here
> >       end
> >
> > Ben
>
>  However, when I tried it in matlab, I got unexpected results:
>
> >> v=ver;
> >> v(1).Name
> ans = Aerospace Blockset
> >> help ver
>  VER MATLAB, Simulink and toolbox version information.
>    VER displays the current MATLAB, Simulink and toolbox version
> information.
>    VER(TOOLBOX_DIR) displays the current version information for the
>    toolbox specified by the string TOOLBOX_DIR.
>
>
> As stated in the help, the command ver gives a long list of version
> numbers (one for each toolbox), so it takes a lot of time, several
> seconds on my PC. Moreover, the 'matlab' toolbox is not first in that
> list. David Bateman suggested the following:
>
> >> v=ver('matlab')
> v =
>       Name: 'MATLAB'
>    Version: '7.0.4'
>    Release: '(R14SP2)'
>       Date: '21-Jan-2005'
>
> >> v=ver('octave')
> v =
> 0x0 struct array with fields:
>    Name
>    Version
>    Release
>    Date
>
> That's way faster, and worked fine. I just suscribed to the list to
> second his suggestion, in case it wasn't clear that it works better.
> So the code should be something like (I haven't tested it in octave)
>
> v1 = ver('matlab');
> v2 = ver('octave');
> if (strcmpi(v1.Name,'matlab'))
>        % Matlab code here
> elseif (strcmpi(v2.Name,'octave'))
>        % Octave code here
> end
>
>
> Arnoques
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