[OctDev] octave-forge: inline problem

[John W. E. <jw...@be...>]

On 11-Jan-2003, Peter Brinkmann <bri...@ma...> wrote:

| Hi!
| I just tried Octave 2.1.42 with octave-forge under Windows 2000, and I've
| got a problem with the function inline.m from octave-forge. Here's
| what happened:
| 
| >> f=inline('x.*x','x')
| parse error near line 32 of file /usr/share/octave/2.1.42/m/miscellaneous/inline.m
| 
| >>>     argstr = ["x,",sprintf ("P%i,",1:n)];
|                                        ^
| error: `inline' undefined near line 1 column 3
| 
| I'm using the Octave binaries from Andy Adler's website.
| Any help would be appreciated.

This seems to work fine with my current sources and the current
version of inline.m from the octave-forge CVS archive, at least when I
start Octave without any arguments.  But it looks like you might be
using --traditional?  Then it also fails for me.  Ah, the bug is the
difference in parsing spaces inside [ ].  One fix is:

   argstr = ["x,",(sprintf ("P%i,",1:n))];

Another is to remove the space between sprintf and ( in that
statement.

jwe