Re: unexpected textscan error

[Ben Abbott]

On Oct 8, 2011, at 8:57 PM, Michael D Godfrey wrote:

> On 10/08/2011 05:47 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>> On Oct 8, 2011, at 8:23 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> > 
>>> I've isolated the problem, and will push a change soon.
>>> 
>>> > 
>>> > 
>>> Ben
>>> 
>> Changeset is below.
>> 
>>      
>> http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/ceda1714a4ad
>> 
>> 
>> Ben
>> 
> After this I still get:
> octave:1> test substr    
>   ***** assert (substr ("This is a test string", 1, 0), "");
> !!!!! test failed
> assert (substr ("This is a test string", 1, 0),"") expected
> 
> 
> but got
> 
> octave:2> 
> =================================
> This is the only failure.
> 

Looks like a improperly written test to me. Perhaps it should be ...

        assert (isempty (substr ("This is a test string", 1, 0)));

I've cc'd Rik.

Ben