Re: Patch to fix floating point format strings to match fopen documentation

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 21 March 2012 18:35, Mike Miller <address@hidden> wrote:
> Attached patch changes the string representations of the floating
> point format types recognized by octave.  The intent is for the
> following to work:
>
> octave:1> fd = fopen('datafile.dat', 'w');
> octave:2> [name, mode, mach] = fopen(fd)
> name = datafile.dat
> mode = wb
> mach = ieee-le
>
> so that the machine representation return values match the strings
> listed in the fopen help text.  Also, return values are compatible
> with Matlab.

Thanks, pushed and merged:

    http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/graph/5bd9e47e9277

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Looking forward to working with you,
- Jordi G. H.