Re: MATLAB / Octave compatability, spacing, parsing

[Steve C. Thompson]

Hi all,

My earlier post was about the parsing compatibility between
Octave and MATLAB.  I've learned some things regarding this,
and FYI:



MATLAB doesn't allow whitespace before the transpose
operator.

  [0 1]'

works in MATLAB, but

  [0 1] '

doesn't.  Octave properly parses both cases.



MATLAB always requires `...'.

  rand (1, ...
        2)

and
  
  rand (1,
        2)

both work in Octave.  MATLAB chokes on the later.



Also, something else. MATLAB doesn't support `printf'.

  foo = 5; 
  printf('My result is: %d\n', foo)

works in Octave, but not MATLAB.  If using MATLAB, the kludge
is to issue `fprintf' instead:

  foo = 5; 
  fprintf('My result is: %d\n', foo)



I plan to be logging these kinds of things at
<http://zeidler.ucsd.edu/~sct/computer/octave_matlab.html>.


Thanks,
Steve





On 24 Oct 05 13:29PM, Steve C. Thompson wrote:
> Hello group,
> 
> In my collaboration with MATLAB users, they've complained
> about some parsing issues.  Specifically, spaces.  For
> example, I write my programs like
> 
>   this = that (with, some, parms);
> 
> but I think that MATLAB generally wants
> 
>   this = that(with, some, parms);
> 
> Then,
> 
>   a = b ';
> 
> works in Octave but MATLAB requires
> 
>   a = b';
> 
> I don't have MATLAB installed so it is hard for me to verify
> these subtleties.  I've unsuccessfully found anything on the
> internet.  Do any of you know of a resource that could be
> helpful?  Any general guidelines?
> 
> Thanks,
> Steve



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