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Re: Upgrade from 2.1.50 to 2.1.73 breaks code on Windows?
From: |
Keith Goodman |
Subject: |
Re: Upgrade from 2.1.50 to 2.1.73 breaks code on Windows? |
Date: |
Sun, 16 Apr 2006 08:57:05 -0700 |
On 4/16/06, David Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> I recently updated from Octave 2.1.50 to 2.1.73 on my Windows-XP
> computer. This is using the Windows binary install in both cases. But
> some of my code now doesn't work with 2.1.73 - for a minor reason which
> I will now illustrate:
>
> If I place the following in a file named "testdata.m":
>
> x = [
> 1 2
> 3 4
> ];
>
> and try to execute "testdata" from the command line, it works in version
> 2.1.50 but not in 2.1.73. For version 2.1.73 it produces these messages:
>
> syntax error
>
> >>> 1 2 3
> ^
>
> parse error near line 3 of file
> /cygdrive/c/home/davids/projects/TRP_bench/SamHammondsCablePull/testdata.m
>
> syntax error
>
> >>> 1 2 3
> ^
>
> Notice that if I type the statements from the Octave command line it
> works fine. Also it is ok if I replace "[" with "[\", everything else
> being the same.
>
> My question is: Is this a bug or a feature?
It works for me in 2.1.73 and 2.9.4:
>> testdata
>> x
x =
1 2
3 4
>> type testdata
testdata is the script file: /home/me/testdata.m
x = [
1 2
3 4
];
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