Re: function values vector

[Andy Buckle]

>if "John" == "Joe "
> printf("You got the right name\n")
> else
> printf("You got the wrong name\n")
> end
You got the wrong name

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Francesco Potortì <address@hidden> wrote:
>>It happens because if X is an array, X < PI returns a logical array
>>of the same size as X, and that is only true in the condition of an IF
>>statement if all the values in the array are true.
>
> Thank you, Joe, I should have looked at the manual, which says:
>
>   The condition in an `if' statement is considered true if its value
> is non-zero, and false if its value is zero.  If the value of the
> conditional expression in an `if' statement is a vector or a matrix, it
> is considered true only if it is non-empty and _all_ of the elements
> are non-zero.
>
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