Re: A way to make octave ignore certain lines? Specifically coder.*

[Robb]

On 07/12/2016 04:08 PM, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 15:48:30 -0500, Robb wrote:
> > I did do this and it ended up working at first:
> > coder.cstructname=@()[]
> >
> > Unfortunately the function sometimes is called with functions that I would
> > rather be ignored. Such as:
> >
> >
> > coder.cstructname("foostring", foofunction);
> >
> > This solution still evaluates the foofunction, really I would like this line
> > skipped over completely.
> >
> > I certainly can wrap everything thing in
> > if exist('OCTAVE_VERSION', 'builtin') == 0,
> >
> > but I was hoping for something a little more transparent on the matlab side
> > of things.
>
> Interesting. This would mean parser support for completely ignoring
> evaluation of such lines.
>
> In that case, the best you can do at this point is probably something
> like
>
>   sed -i 's/^\s*coder\./## &/' *.m
>
> and maybe report a bug if you think it's important that Octave grow this
> feature in a future version.
Yes, sed would work, but I was thinking about going into the code base 
and seeing if I could do it from their.  I was hoping there would be a 
hook somewhere I could write and drop into my octave installation to 
make it ignore those lines.

 Regardless, thanks for the tip.