Re: Bug in file_in_path() ?

[Michael Goffioul]

John W. Eaton a écrit :
> On  7-Nov-2006, address@hidden wrote:
>
> | Is it normal that file_in_path() (from utils.cc) unconditionnally returns
> | the empty string? This makes \"exist\" fails to detect regular files.
>
> No.  Please send an example of precisely what you are trying and how
> it fails.
>   

I'm trying to test if a regular file exists in the current octave's 
path. This should
be possible with exist() function, as stated by the documentation. This 
fails
because:
   - Fexist() calls symbol_exist()
   - symbol_exist() calls file_in_path()
   - file_in_path() returns "" unconditionally

Michael.