Re: [OctDev] Implementation of importdata belonging to Octave Core or Octave-Forge?

[Ben A. <bpa...@ma...>]

On Oct 19, 2012, at 1:35 PM, Erik Kjellson wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Now I have uploaded my implementation here: https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/feature-requests/41/
> 
> I've noticed that a lot of function files have some kind of tests in the end of the file. I guess that you use them to check that you haven't introduced any logic error in the code when modifying it?
> I did find this page: http://wiki.octave.org/Tests
> But I guess I need to fake input from a fake file in some way, is there anywhere I can read more on how to do that?
> 
> regards,
> Erik

I suggest you create a temporary file and use it for testing.   See "help tmpnam"

Ben