Re: bin2dec behavior different from Matlab?

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 03/21/2012 05:01 AM, ahowe42 wrote:
> If a string holds data that is too be operated upon, every character should
> be meaningful.  Using [1 0 1] to indicate [101] is bad programming practice,
> and an (admittedly small) inefficiency.  I have also done MATLAB programming
> using binary strings and bin2dec / dec2bin, and never included unnecessary
> spaces (actually, logical arrays are much more useful and should be faster).
>
> Is this really something that should be "fixed"?

Yes.


> spaces (actually, logical arrays are much more useful and should be faster).

octave:1> x = [1 0 1] == 1
x =

   1   0   1

octave:2> class(x)
ans = logical
octave:3> bin2dec(x)
error: base2dec: S must be a string or cellstring
error: called from:
error:   /home/sebald/octave/base2dec.m at line 63, column 5
error:   /home/sebald/octave/bin2dec.m at line 48, column 5


Maybe more than one thing.

Dan