bugGNU Octave - Bugs: bug #35131, symvar() incorrectly identifies...

 
 

bug #35131: symvar() incorrectly identifies floating point "e" as variable

Submitted by:  None
Submitted on:  Tue 20 Dec 2011 09:24:45 PM UTC  
 
Category: InterpreterSeverity: 3 - Normal
Priority: 5 - NormalItem Group: Incorrect Result
Status: FixedAssigned to: None
Originator Name: J.J. GreenOriginator Email: -unavailable-
Open/Closed: ClosedRelease: dev
Operating System: GNU/Linux

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Fri 23 Dec 2011 05:28:22 AM UTC, comment #3:

Fixed in this changeset (http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/ebf41239e47e). This will be part of the 3.6.0 release.

Rik <rik5>
Project Administrator
Tue 20 Dec 2011 10:29:55 PM UTC, comment #2:

As requested

Anonymous
Tue 20 Dec 2011 10:27:46 PM UTC, comment #1:

Confirmed. The root problem actually seems to be the parsing of functions by the function inline().

Could you report the output from Matlab for the following commands?

Rik <rik5>
Project Administrator
Tue 20 Dec 2011 09:24:45 PM UTC, original submission:

It seems that Octave's symvar() does not parse floating point exponential notation correctly:

While Matlab gets it right:

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