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Re: doubt in char
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Henry F. Mollet |
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Re: doubt in char |
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Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:55:59 -0700 |
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GNU Octave, version 2.1.71 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.1.0).
Using which char.m produces the one from octave-forge and help char.m does
not say it's a built-in function as Quention suggested in an earlier post?
Henry
octave:1> which char.m
which: `char.m' is the script file
/usr/local/share/octave/2.1.71/site/m/octave-forge/general/char.m
octave:2> help char.m
char.m is the file:
/usr/local/share/octave/2.1.71/site/m/octave-forge/general/char.m
usage: z = char(x)
converts numbers into character-arrays
it the inverse function of toascii
see also: TOASCII, SETSTR
on 8/10/05 7:20 AM, Quentin Spencer at address@hidden wrote:
> 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, Quentin Spencer, 2005/08/10
- 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 <=
- Re: doubt in char, Geordie McBain, 2005/08/10