[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #56326] error message prints wrong line when reporting a syntax error

[Carlo de Falco]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56326>

                 Summary: error message prints wrong line when reporting a
syntax error
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: cdf
            Submitted on: Wed 15 May 2019 05:40:10 PM CEST
                Category: Interpreter
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Inaccurate Result
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: 
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: dev
        Operating System: Any

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Details:

Consider a file named bugtest.m containing the following code


function a = bugtest (b)



  a = (b(1), b(2)); 
  
endfunction


when executing the function, octave indicates the correct line number for the
line containing the syntax error, but prints the first line in the file
instead:


>> bugtest (1)
parse error near line 5 of file /private/tmp/bugtest.m

  syntax error

>>> function a = bugtest (b)
               ^

>> 






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