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Re: doubt in char
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Quentin Spencer |
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Re: doubt in char |
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Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:20:45 -0500 |
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Robert A. Macy wrote:
Makes sense, but
which char.m
returns the same file I sent the copy of.
I didn't find a different one.
but "which char" (without the .m) on my version of Octave returns:
char is a built-in function
Just curious...which filename is not as intuitive as where
filename. Is this a carry over from Matlab compatibility?
Yes, but Matlab got its "which" command from Unix. The which command is
still a commonly used command on Unix and Linux systems now, so I
suspect that since Octave was developed on those systems, it would have
probably ended up with the same command even had it developed in a world
without Matlab. True, the command is less intuitive than "where"--maybe
there are historical Unix reasons for it.
-Quentin
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- doubt in char, Jorge Barros de Abreu, 2005/08/09
- Re: doubt in char, Henry F. Mollet, 2005/08/09
- Re: doubt in char, Jorge Barros de Abreu, 2005/08/10
- Re: doubt in char, Robert A. Macy, 2005/08/10
- Re: doubt in char, Quentin Spencer, 2005/08/10
- Re: doubt in char, Robert A. Macy, 2005/08/10
- Re: doubt in char,
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- Re: doubt in char, David Bateman, 2005/08/10
- Re: doubt in char, Jorge Barros de Abreu, 2005/08/10
- Re: doubt in char, Robert A. Macy, 2005/08/10
- Re: doubt in char, Henry F. Mollet, 2005/08/10
- Re: doubt in char, Geordie McBain, 2005/08/10