Strings in Octave and Matlab

[Matthias Brennwald]

On Jan 7, 2009, at 2:02 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On  6-Jan-2009, James Sherman Jr. wrote:
>
> | I believe this is just because octave is just more lax because it  
> accepts
> | both ' and " as delimeters for a string.  I think they did this  
> for those
> | that are used to programming in C and are more familiar with using  
> " instead
> | of '.
> |
> | Just stick with the single apostrophe ( ' ) and you should be fine.
> |
> | I know there are other cases like this (using the ++ operator I  
> think is
> | one), but I don't know of any mode where you can force Matlab  
> compatibility
> | in Octave.
>
> You can do
>
>  warning on Octave:matlab-incompatible
>
> It doesn't catch everything.
>
> jwe

Thanks, this is exactly what (I thought) I was looking for.

I put 'warning on Octave:matlab-incompatible' into my .octaverc file  
so that I'd get a warning if I'd write code that would not work well  
with Matlab. This does the trick, but I also get loads of warnings  
from the m-files that came with Octave (i.e. not from my code). Is  
there a way to make these checks apply only for my code, but not the m- 
files that are part of Octave?

Matthias