[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #61057] Octave gives incorrect column number in error messages

[Solomon Douglas]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?61057>

                 Summary: Octave gives incorrect column number in error
messages
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: solomon
            Submitted on: Wed 18 Aug 2021 07:38:31 PM UTC
                Category: Interpreter
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Unexpected Error or Warning
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Solomon Douglas
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
                 Release: 6.3.0
         Discussion Lock: Any
        Operating System: Microsoft Windows

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Details:

If I try to invoke a nonexistant function (usually due to a typographical
error), the resulting error message gives the same number for both the line
number and the column number. Specifically, it gives the line number twice.

For example, if I have a script "testbug.m" consisting of 99 blank lines and
then a bogus function call, thus:


##...99 blank lines...
aoseutaoesu();


Then when I invoke the script, this is what I get:


>> testbug
error: 'aoseutaoesu' undefined near line 100, column 100
error: called from
    testbug at line 100 column 1
>>





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