[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #50541] which() should return non-empty string for existing built-in classes/functions

[Felipe G. Nievinski]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50541>

                 Summary: which() should return non-empty string for existing
built-in classes/functions
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: fgnievinski
            Submitted on: Tue 14 Mar 2017 05:08:45 AM UTC
                Category: Octave Function
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Matlab Compatibility
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 4.2.1
        Operating System: Microsoft Windows

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Details:

In Octave we have:

>> size(which('inputParser'))
ans =
        0        0

>> tmp = which('inputParser')
tmp =

It may only be a matter of assigning to the output the message which is
already displayed:

>> which('inputParser')
'inputParser' is a built-in function


For reference, in Matlab we have:

>> tmp = which('inputParser')
tmp =
inputParser is a built-in method

>> size(which('inputParser'))
ans =
     1    32





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