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

[c. <car...@gm...>]

On 21 Oct 2012, at 15:47, Ben Abbott wrote:

> 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

This fuction:
https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/code/11324/tree/trunk/octave-forge/extra/bim/inst/bim3a_osc_advection_diffusion.m

has an example of creating a temporary file to work with in a demo.

HTH,
c.