[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #65219] datenum/datestr/datevec: Inconsistent behavior for '' input

[Rik]

Update of bug#65219 (group octave):

                  Status:                    None => Wont Fix               

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Follow-up Comment #5:

The soon-to-be-released Octave 9.1 emits an error for empty input.  For
example,


datenum ('')
error: datevec: none of the standard formats match the DATE string
error: called from
    datevec at line 160 column 11
    datenum at line 168 column 46


This seems like perfectly fine behavior since it isn't clear what Octave
should do.  It could, as it did in earlier releases, default to a start of
epoch date.  But why should it guess?  As Matlab points out in their warning,
they also don't think empty input is valid and will be changing Matlab
behavior in the future.

I'm marking as Won't Fix unless there is a compelling argument I'm not seeing.


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