Re: strmatch in 2.1.73 (windows-installer)

[Michael Grossbach]

Muthiah Annamalai wrote:
> I think you can substitute the correct m-file, in the path shown in
> octave:1>which strmatch
> with the latest m-file from the source. This is one option.
> But I wonder why there is such an issue, in the first place.

I just had a quick look at strmatch.m from 2.9.9 (which required me to 
also copy strncmp.m and strtrunc.m). The result is different but not better:

octave> strmatch('es','test')
ans = [](0x0)


But that might be due to some function called from either of the three 
mentioned above that is there but in the wrong version. Obviously, 
strmatch has been completely re-written since 2.1.73.
Anyway, for now I have found a work-around (using strcmp) that does what 
I need.

Thanks, Michael