Chapter 4: Rationalizing: Octave Scripts

Understanding disp and input

b)

d)

e)

Note that c) will likely give an error later.

Understanding statements and Boolean operators

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a)

f)

g)

2	1 1 1 3 1 5 2 1 2 3 2 5

3	Line 5 does not match the while statement
	Line 6 does not match the for statement
	m is not incremented which will lead to an infinite loop

4	Line 1: input must have the optional argument's' for string inputs
	Line 3: is not a valid expression (use strcmp instead)
	Line 5: the elseif statement evaluates a Boolean

Printing with printf

1	a) blank	b) Hello Worl	c) Hello Worl
	d) 2	e) 2.000000	f) 2.000000e+000