[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #55487] ismethod of custom classdefs always returning false

[Rik]

Follow-up Comment #6, bug #55487 (project octave):

Looks like the comment was cut off because the verbatim tag was misspelled.

In any case, I tried in Matlab and methods() returns only the function name. 
It does not return the output type, nor does it include the extra parentheses
'()'.

Either we change how methods() returns data from Java objects, or if we like
the extra verbosity about the function, then we have to change ismethod to
possibly use a regular expression to remove extraneous information.

This regexp would work


mtd = regexprep (methods (x), '^(?:[^ ]+ )+(\w+)\(.*$', '$1')


Of course, this leaves duplicates in the list of methods.  But that doesn't
really matter because you could then use


retval = any (strcmp (method, method_list));


rather than


retval = ismember (method, method_list);


This will probably be faster because ismember is rather slow.



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