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Re: Question about bin2dec
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
Re: Question about bin2dec |
Date: |
Fri, 30 Jun 2006 13:59:17 -0400 |
On 30-Jun-2006, Ron Crummett wrote:
| Are we speaking of compatibility with Matlab?
Yes, what other kind of compatibility is there?
| I personally favor that, as I have code using the bin2dec function
| that runs fine in Matlab but not in Octave because of
| this...feature.
Or, another way to look at it is that relying on specific behavior for
strangely formatted input. Why are there spaces between the binary
digits anyway? Why not fix that instead?
| Ignoring spaces in the binary vector will lead to
| what one would expect. (Well, at least what I would expect).
I don't plan to fix this myself, but will apply a patch if someone
else provides it. It must work for character matrices as well as
single charachter strings. It would be good to include a test for the
new behavior.
Thanks,
jwe