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Re: function help
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Ben Abbott |
Subject: |
Re: function help |
Date: |
Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:12:29 -0500 |
On Feb 23, 2012, at 5:56 PM, Tom Bohdan wrote:
> --- On Fri, 24/2/12, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> On Feb 23, 2012, at 4:26 AM, Tom Bohdan <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> I have had no success with finding why the following doesn't work. I have
>>> tried many examples in Octave's Help and they don't work either.
>>>
>>> Why is it that if you type each line into the command line then the
>>> following works:
>>>
>>> function total=addr(x,y)
>>> total=x+y;
>>> endfunction
>>>
>>> add(5,4)
>>>
>>> >ans=9
>>>
>>> but if i put the above lines into a m-file then the interpreter spits out x
>>> undefined etc.
>>>
>>> This happens for all the functions i have found in the LSODE examples etc.
>>> If you type them one by one at the command line it works but not in a
>>> script file. What am i missing ???
>>>
>>> regards
>>> Tom
>>
>> Did you intend "add()" or "addr()" ?
>>
>> Ben
>
> thanks for your prompt reply.
> Another person suggested that it was because there may be a function called
> add() that may be messing it up but i retried the following and got the same
> problems:
>
> function total=exxample(x,y)
> total=x+y;
> endfunction
> exxample(9,8)
>
> At home i use Ubuntu 10.10 LTS which has octave 2.3.3. I typically use QT
> octave but i tried it on the command line of Octave itself too.
>
> At work i use Windows Xp and QT Octave and Octave 2.3.4. Again similar issues
> BUT i did have some success.
>
> if i hit Run within the editor of QT octave on the Windows version only the
> script worked !
>
> If i run it by the Command line in the dos window it failed exactly like the
> Linux versions with undefined x in row2, col7 or something like that.
>
> If its typed line -by-line into the Command line it works too. It must be a
> bug?
When you write "run it by the Command line", but exactly did you do? How is it
different than typing in at the Command line ?
Ben
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