octave-bug-tracker
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #58326] Document that canonicalize_file_name d

From: Rik
Subject: [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #58326] Document that canonicalize_file_name does no tilde expansion
Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 14:08:08 -0400 (EDT)
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko 
Update of bug #58326 (project octave):

                Category:         Octave Function => Documentation          
              Item Group:        Incorrect Result => Documentation          
                  Status:                    None => Confirmed              
                 Summary: canonicalize_file_name returns empty on file names
starting with tilde => Document that canonicalize_file_name does no tilde
expansion

    _______________________________________________________

Follow-up Comment #3:

I agree.  The function is not intended to do tilde expansion or variable
expansion.  For example,


canonicalize_file_name ("$HOME")


also returns empty.  I'm changing this to a documentation issue.


    _______________________________________________________

Reply to this item at:

  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?58326>

_______________________________________________
  Message sent via Savannah
  https://savannah.gnu.org/
reply via email to
[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]