changeset 29605:7460baab17ad

Emit more informative error message for empty {} indexing (bug #57297). * ov-cell.cc (octave_cell::subsref): Change error() message to recommend replacement syntax '{:}'.
author Rik <rik@octave.org>
date Tue, 04 May 2021 14:03:19 -0700
parents 44f0b8975fe5
children 270ffe1e7647
files libinterp/octave-value/ov-cell.cc
diffstat 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/libinterp/octave-value/ov-cell.cc	Tue May 04 20:50:58 2021 +0200
+++ b/libinterp/octave-value/ov-cell.cc	Tue May 04 14:03:19 2021 -0700
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@
     case '{':
       {
         if (idx.front ().empty ())
-          error ("invalid empty index expression");
+          error ("invalid empty index expression {}, use {:} instead");
 
         octave_value tmp = do_index_op (idx.front ());