Re: str2double API changes

[Ben Abbott]

On Jun 4, 2011, at 6:42 PM, Rik wrote:

> On 06/04/2011 10:00 AM, address@hidden wrote:
>> I just upgraded to 3.4 and noticed that the API for str2double is
>> slightly different. It no longer returns the status of the conversion.
>> Was this removal on purpose when rewriting for C or it was just
>> forgotten (just asking because it's also doesn't appear on the NEWS
>> hence my surprise).
>> 
>> It used to work this way
>> 
>> [num, status] = str2double {'32, '23', 45'}
>> 
>> where status would be a cell array of the same division of the input
>> with values of 0 or -1 whether it succeeded or not on the conversion.
> The new behavior (i.e., no extra return status) makes the function Matlab
> compatible.  The documentation for str2double from Mathworks is here:
> http://www.mathworks.com/help/techdoc/ref/str2double.html.

I don't think this is an issue of Matlab compatibility. Granted that supporting 
the return status means that Matlab isn't consistent with Octave, but Octave is 
still compatible with Matlab, correct?

Ben