[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #44678] Using spaces in m file names causes error on compile

[Pantxo Diribarne]

Update of bug #44678 (project octave):

                  Status:                    None => Invalid                
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 

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Follow-up Comment #1:

Hi,

This is not expected to work: imagine a script named "foo bar.m", in order to
run this script you would have to type "foo bar" in the terminal. This syntax
has already another meaning in Octave/Matlab language, which is "run the 'foo'
function with the string argument 'bar'". However, in Octave (not in Matlab)
you can run such script using "run ('foo bar.m')" but this is not considered a
good practice.

Now, I could check what matlab returns when you try to run (using the "run"
button in the built-in editor) such file with a space in its name. The file
name was "foo bar.m":


>> foo bar
Undefined function 'foo' for input arguments of type 'char'.


This is definitely an equally uninformative error message. 

Closing bug report.

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