Re: Inexplicable error message

[Sergei Steshenko]

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>To: Sergei Steshenko <address@hidden> 
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>Sent: Friday, February 3, 2012 6:12 AM
>Subject: Re: Inexplicable error message 
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>Yes - You are absolutely right - it was a bracket in the line above taufactor. 
>Why is it that octave points at the wrong lines ?
>Asha 
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>Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers. 
>Mary Catherine Bateson 
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> From: Sergei Steshenko <address@hidden>
>To: asha g <address@hidden>; "address@hidden" <address@hidden> 
>Sent: Thursday, 2 February 2012 8:59 PM
>Subject: Re: Inexplicable error message 
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>> From: asha g <address@hidden>
>>To: "address@hidden" <address@hidden> 
>>Sent: Thursday, February 2, 2012 2:55 PM
>>Subject: Inexplicable error message 
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>> I have a script file in which I had written the following :
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>>taufactor = (tau)/(Cm*pi*d);
>>I= 0.1*(10^-9); % amperes
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>>when I run it I get 
>>octave3.2:1> cabunpa2sevoltNoct2
>>parse error near
line 61 of file /home/ashag/Desktop/passivedendrite/cabunpa2sevoltNoct2.m
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>>  syntax error
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>>>>> taufactor = (tau)/(Cm*pi*d);
>>             ^
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>>parse error near line 61 of file 
>>/home/ashag/Desktop/passivedendrite/cabunpa2sevoltNoct2.m
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>>  syntax error
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>Maybe actual error is above the
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>taufactor = (tau)/(Cm*pi*d);
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>line.
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>Regards,
>  Sergei.
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Parsers are formal machine, they stop at the first place that looks like an 
illegal language construct to them.

Regards,
  Sergei.