Make Octave behave more like Matlab

[Matthias Brennwald]

Dear all

I use Octave to develop code that is intended to run on both Octave  
and Matlab. I found that Octave sometimes does things that Matlab  
won't. For example:


1. Strings can be defined with single or double quotes in Octave,  
while Matlab only accepts single quotes. For instance, this will work  
in Octave, but not in Matlab:

myString = "Hello";


2. switch / case statements: Matlab requires a comma after the case  
statements, Octave doesn't. For instance, the following will work in  
Octave, but not in Matlab (which requires commas after 'red' and  
otherwse):

color = 'green';
switch color
        case 'red'
                disp('It is red.');
        otherwise
                disp('It is not red.');
end


My problem with this is that when I test my code with Octave, I don't  
get any errors or warnings, but then I get complaints from Matlab  
users because I wrote something that Matlab does not like. Is there a  
way to make Octave act more like Matlab?

Cheers,
Matthias


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