Re: Legend help

[Joe Koski]

on 11/6/06 9:40 PM, Ron Crummett at address@hidden wrote:

> Okay, I feel really silly for asking this, but I cannot get the legend
> command to work in Octave 2.9.6 - I try typing something like
> 
> legend('string1');
> 
> and get the error messages
> 
> error: split: both s and t must be strings
> error: evaluating if command near line 53, column 5
> error: evaluating if command near line 48, column 3
> error: called from `split' in file
> `/usr/share/octave/2.9.6/m/strings/split.m'
> error: called from `legend' in file
> `/usr/share/octave/2.9.6/site/m/octave-forge//plot/legend.m'
> 
> I have no idea why I would be getting these messages.  Anyone have some
> ideas?  Thanks in advance.
> 
> -Ron

Ron,

I had the same problem with legend.m in 2.9.6, but the problem has been
fixed in more recent versions. You need to replace legend.m with a more
recent version, either from CVS or from a newer distribution.

Joe