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Re: Understanding a dot
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Kim Hansen |
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Re: Understanding a dot |
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Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:47:07 +0100 |
On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Søren Hauberg <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi all,
> By accident I've just typed a dot instead of a semi-colon in a
> for-loop. This didn't produce an error, as I would have expected. Here's
> an example:
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> octave:15> tmp = rand(1,3)
> octave:16> for i = 1.length(tmp), i, endfor
> ans = 3
> i = 1
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> I don't understand this code. It seems to behave just like
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> length(tmp), for i = 1, i, endfor
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> but I don't understand the syntax. Can anybody explain this syntax to
> me?
I guess 1. is read by the same code that would read 1.0, the code
could be reformated as:
for i = 1.
length(tmp)
i
endfor
How does Matlab handle decimal points without any decimals after them?
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