parsing error with missing commas?

[Jörg Bretschneider]

I have to port an entire toolbox from matlab to octave and run into
trouble with a parsing error:
syntax error
when I ussued a command with a cell array whose elements where separated
simply by spaces, which is quite common in matlab and also works with
octave 3 in many cases.
I attach the command as my email here cannot produce the brackets for
cell arrays, just {}

Thanks

-- 
Jörg Bretschneider

Fraunhofer-Institut für Integrierte Schaltungen
Institutsteil Entwurfsautomatisierung
Zeunerstr. 38,
01069 Dresden,
Germany

Tel. ++49(0)351/4640-749
Fax: ++49(0)351/4640-703
Joerg.Bretschneider at eas.iis.fraunhofer.de
www.eas.iis.fraunhofer.de

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