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view scripts/miscellaneous/namelengthmax.m @ 23083:e9a0469dedd9 stable
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author | John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> |
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date | Fri, 20 Jan 2017 12:19:08 -0500 |
parents | bac0d6f07a3e |
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## Copyright (C) 2008-2016 David Bateman ## ## This file is part of Octave. ## ## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it ## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at ## your option) any later version. ## ## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU ## General Public License for more details. ## ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License ## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see ## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. ## -*- texinfo -*- ## @deftypefn {} {} namelengthmax () ## Return the @sc{matlab} compatible maximum variable name length. ## ## Octave is capable of storing strings up to @math{2^{31} - 1} in length. ## However for @sc{matlab} compatibility all variable, function, and structure ## field names should be shorter than the length returned by ## @code{namelengthmax}. In particular, variables stored to a @sc{matlab} file ## format (@file{*.mat}) will have their names truncated to this length. ## @end deftypefn function n = namelengthmax () n = 63; endfunction %!assert (namelengthmax (), 63)