Re: Strcmp not behaving as expected

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 22 October 2012 17:59, Martin Helm <address@hidden> wrote:
> Am 22.10.2012 23:46, schrieb Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso:
>> On 22 October 2012 17:44, Mumble07 <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Huh.  I just went back and tried strcmp in the command line again, and the
>>> problem appears to have dissapeared.  Since then, I've restarted octave, as
>>> well as the terminal instance.  Could it have been something wonky in the
>>> terminal? I could have sworn I restarted octave several times.
>> You probably defined strcmp to be something else. Did you mess up your
>> load path? Was strcmp a variable name?
>>
> Good catch: Sounds like a possible reason, if I do that then I get such
> an error
>
> octave:1> strcmp=1
> strcmp =  1
> octave:2> strcmp ('g_90', 'vent') error: A(I,J): row index out of
> bounds; value 103 out of bound 1
> octave:2>
>
> which is a logical consequence.

It appears that citizen Mumble07 defined strcmp to be some
114-by-at-least-118 matrix of zeros and ones and then tried to index
it with strings.

Perhaps there should be some warning about attempting to index
matrices with strings. What does Matlab do if you attempt to do this?

- Jordi G. H.