Strings in Octave and Matlab

[Matthias Brennwald]

On 07.01.2009, at 16:45, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On  7-Jan-2009, Matthias Brennwald wrote:
>
> | 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?
>
> No.  Perhaps someone would like to contribute changes for that?
>
> jwe

I'd be willing to spend some time for this. However, I have  
absolutely no idea how and where to tackle this. I am 'just' yet  
another Octave user, i.e. I have no clue about how to modify Octave  
itself. So, if someone has an idea and would be willing to get me  
started...

Matthias


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