Octave error filename undefined near line 1 column 1 - octave

I tried to run a function with octave-GUI.
I first write a function in 'testFunc.rtf'(in WordPad).
function y = testFunc(x)
y = x^2 + x^3
The path to this file is 'C:\Users\username\Desktop'.
Then on octave-GUI, I wrote such code:
cd 'C:\C:\Users\username\Desktop';
testFunc(4);
The result of this was just an error below:
error: 'testFunc' undefined near line 1, column 1
How can I solve this problem?

Just in case someone like me finds this page, and the above suggestion still doesn't help, some advice. This is running on a Win10 machine:
The error text itself means nothing. It's very poor. It just means "oops, something went wrong and we can't tell you why".
In my case, the file existed, and had the correct name. And was in the "current directory". Using the octave command "what" showed it was there.
But try as I might, it always gave me the error above. I tried so many things I saw suggested in other search results, like making sure the function def was at the first line of the file, etc. Even tried changing DOS -> unix line endings (cr/lf to lf). Nothing.
Then it occurred to me that I was trying to run off of a "samba share" from a linux drive. Even though it had read/write/execute privileges, it just would not actually run.
Moved the file(s) to a windows drive and it started working!
Sheesh. Good luck, all.
Avner

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error finding and uploading a file in octave

I tried converting my .csv file to .dat format and tried to load the file into Octave. It throws an error:
unable to find file filename
I also tried to load the file in .csv format using the syntax
x = csvread(filename)
and it throws the error:
'filename' undefined near line 1 column 13.
I also tried loading the file by opening it on the editor and I tried loading it and now it shows me
warning: load: 'filepath' found by searching load path
error: load: unable to determine file format of 'Salary_Data.dat'.
How can I load my data?
>> load Salary_Data.dat
error: load: unable to find file Salary_Data.dat
>> Salary_Data
error: 'Salary_Data' undefined near line 1 column 1
>> Salary_Data
error: 'Salary_Data' undefined near line 1 column 1
>> Salary_Data
error: 'Salary_Data' undefined near line 1 column 1
>> x = csvread(Salary_Data)
error: 'Salary_Data' undefined near line 1 column 13
>> x = csvread(Salary_Data.csv)
error: 'Salary_Data' undefined near line 1 column 13
>> load Salary_Data.dat
warning: load: 'C:/Users/vaith/Desktop\Salary_Data.dat' found by searching load path
error: load: unable to determine file format of 'Salary_Data.dat'
>> load Salary_Data.csv
warning: load: 'C:/Users/vaith/Desktop\Salary_Data.csv' found by searching load path
error: load: unable to determine file format of 'Salary_Data.csv'
Salary_Data.csv
YearsExperience,Salary
1.1,39343.00
1.3,46205.00
1.5,37731.00
2.0,43525.00
2.2,39891.00
2.9,56642.00
3.0,60150.00
3.2,54445.00
3.2,64445.00
3.7,57189.00
3.9,63218.00
4.0,55794.00
4.0,56957.00
4.1,57081.00
4.5,61111.00
4.9,67938.00
5.1,66029.00
5.3,83088.00
5.9,81363.00
6.0,93940.00
6.8,91738.00
7.1,98273.00
7.9,101302.00
8.2,113812.00
8.7,109431.00
9.0,105582.00
9.5,116969.00
9.6,112635.00
10.3,122391.00
10.5,121872.00
Ok, you've stumbled through a whole pile of issues here.
It would help if you didn't give us error messages without the commands that produced them.
The first message means you were telling Octave to open something called filename and it couldn't find anything called filename. Did you define the variable filename? Your second command and the error message suggests you didn't.
Do you know what Octave's working directory is? Is it the same as where the file is located? From the response to your load commands, I'd guess not. The file is located at C:/Users/vaith/Desktop. Octave's working directory is probably somewhere else.
(Try the pwd command and see what it tells you. Use the file browser or the cd command to navigate to the same location as the file. help pwd and help cd commands would also provide useful information.)
The load command, used as a command (load file.txt) can take an input that is or isn't defined as a string. A function format (load('file.txt') or csvread('file.txt')) must be a string input, hence the quotes around file.txt. So all of your csvread input commands thought you were giving it variable names, not filenames.
Last, the fact that load couldn't read your data isn't overly surprising. Octave is trying to guess what kind of file it is and how to load it. I assume you tried help load to see what the different command options are? You can give it different options to help Octave figure it out. If it actually is a csv file though, and is all numbers not text, then csvread might still be your best option if you use it correctly. help csvread would be good information for you.
It looks from your data like you have a header line that is probably confusing the load command. For data that simply formatted, the csvread command can bring in the data. It will replace your header text with zeros.
So, first, navigate to the location of the file:
>> cd C:/Users/vaith/Desktop
then open the file:
>> mydata = csvread('Salary_Data.csv')
mydata =
0.00000 0.00000
1.10000 39343.00000
1.30000 46205.00000
1.50000 37731.00000
2.00000 43525.00000
...
If you plan to reuse the filename, you can assign it to a variable, then open the file:
>> myfile = 'Salary_Data.csv'
myfile = Salary_Data.csv
>> mydata = csvread(myfile)
mydata =
0.00000 0.00000
1.10000 39343.00000
1.30000 46205.00000
1.50000 37731.00000
2.00000 43525.00000
...
Notice how the filename is stored and used as a string with quotation marks, but the variable name is not. Also, csvread converted non-numeric header data to 'zeros'. The help for csvread and dlmread show you how to change it to something other than zero, or to skip a certain number of rows. If you want to preserve the text, you'll have to use some other input function.

How do I get want anything to work with xlswrite in octave?

I want anything to work with xlswrite in octave. Eventually I want to be able to put a cell array containing but really anything working at all would be a start.
I've put in the following lines as this is the simplest case I could think of:
array1 = [0 9 10]
cellarray1 = num2cell(array1)
xlswrite ('/home/willubuntu/acpimrepo/bob.xlsx', cellarray1)
Then I get this error:
error: `xlswrite' undefined near line 9 column 1
I've tried this:
xlswrite ('/home/willubuntu/acpimrepo/bob.xlsx','cellarray1')
And get the same error:
error: `xlswrite' undefined near line 9 column 1
I've tried removing the space between xlswrite and the opening parenthesis - same error.
I've tried using array1 and not cellarray1 and got the same error (with both parenthesis options).
I've tried removing the directory from the file name and get a very slightly different error:
error: `xlswrite' undefined near line 10 column 1
What is going on? Why doesn't xlswrite work? What piece of pedantry am I missing?
Please remember that if you say anything too sophisticated, it will go over my head. Remember I am clueless and at the end of my tether.
If you would use a recent Octave version you would see
octave:1> xlswrite
warning: Functions for spreadsheet style I/O
(.xls .xlsx .sxc .ods .dbf .wk1 etc.)
are provided in the io package. See <http://octave.sf.net/io/>.
which guides you to the right direction.
Even a quick search on http://wiki.octave.org/Main_Page would solve this. Perhaps you should spend some minutes with a search machine or the manual and the wiki instead of moaning how annoying and boring GNU Octave is.

IF and ! = ns2 error

I have a problem with path in a tcl file. I tried to use
source " /tmp/mob.tcl "
and this path in bash file :
/opt/ns-allinone-2.35/ns-2.35/indep-utils/cmu-scen-gen/setdest/setdest -v 1 -n $n -p 10 -M 64 -t 100 -x 250 -y 250 >> /tmp/mob.tcl
The terminal give me this output:
..."
(procedure "source" line 8)
invoked from within
"source "/tmp/mob.tcl" "
(file "mobilita_source.tcl" line 125)
How I can do this?
Firstly, this:
source " /tmp/mob.tcl "
is very unlikely to be correct. The spaces around the filename inside the quotes will confuse the source command. (It could be correct, but only if you have a directory in your current directory whose name is a single space. That's really unlikely, unless you're a great deal more evil than I am.)
It really helps a lot if you stop making this error.
Secondly, the error message is both
Incomplete, with just an ellipsis instead of a full error on the first line
Really worrying, with source claimed to be a procedure (second line of that short trace).
It's legal to make a procedure called source, and sometimes the right thing to do, but if you're doing it then you have to be ever so careful to duplicate the semantics of the standard Tcl command or odd things will happen.
Thirdly, you've got a file of what is apparently generated code, and you're hitting a problem in it, and you're not telling us what is on/around line 125 of the file (the error trace is pretty clear on that front) or in the contents of the source procedure (which is non-standard; the standard source is implemented in C) and you're expecting us to guess what's going wrong for you??? Seriously?
Tcl error traces are usually quite clear enough for you to figure out what went wrong and where. If there's an unclear error, and it didn't come from user code (by calling error or return -code error) then let us know; we'll help (or possibly even change Tcl to make things clearer in the future). But right now, there's a complete shortage of information.
Here's an example of what a normal source error looks like:
% source /tmp/foo/bar/boo
couldn't read file "/tmp/foo/bar/boo": no such file or directory
% puts $errorInfo
couldn't read file "/tmp/foo/bar/boo": no such file or directory
while executing
"source /tmp/foo/bar/boo"
If a script generates an error directly, it's encouraged to be as clear as that, but we cannot enforce it. Sometimes you have to be a bit of a detective yourself…

Creating Function in Octave

I'm beginning with octave. I've created a file called squareThisNumber.m in My Documents with the following code:
function y = squareThisNumber(x)
y = x^2;
I set the directory to look at My Documents with
cd 'C:\Users\XXXX\My Documents'
I type "squareThisNumber(3)" into octave, and all I'm getting is "Error: 'squareThisNumber' undefined near line 3 column 1." What am I doing wrong?
EDIT:
When I type ls into octave, I get "error: ls: command exited abnormally with status 127". Did I not install Octave correctly?
This behavior sure does seem like there's a problem with octave's current working directory. Does the command dir or pwd also have the same problem?
But you might be able to ignore all of that by
addpath("C:\Users\XXXX\My Documents");
Did you place the end keyword at the end? Code example below works perfectly for me
https://saturnapi.com/fullstack/function-example
% Welcome to Saturn's MATLAB-Octave API.
% Delete the sample code below these comments and write your own!
function y = squareThisNumber(x)
y = x^2;
end
squareThisNumber(9)

SciTe and Python 3 - problems with configuration [UBUNTU]

I have big problem(s) with configuration of SciTE in context of Python 3. I do not know if details have any meaning, so:
[DETAILS]
I downloaded and executed gen_python_3_api.py.
I created folder "api" in usr/share/scite and copy-pasted there python3.api
I edited SciTEUser.properties as written in documentation of gen_python_3_api.py. It did not help a bit, so:
I used more general way found on website of SciTE. I edited python.properties and added a line:
api.$(file.patterns.py)=$(SciteDefaultHome)\api\python.api.
Still no effect.
I just edited another line of python.properties:
if PLAT_GTK
command.go.*.py=python3 -u "$(FileNameExt)"
It finally worked (or I though so).
[/DETAILS]
Now I want to run simple Fibbonaci program that worked well with IDLE.
def Fib(n):
a = 0
b = 1
FibL = []
for i in range (n):
FibL.append(a)
z = a
a = b
b = b+z
return FibL
n = int(input("Number? "))
print(Fib(n))
And I get:
>python3 -u "test.py"
Number? Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test.py", line 38, in <module>
n = int(input("Number? "))
EOFError: EOF when reading a line
>Exit code: 1
I am completely confused. Do somebody know why this things happen and how to fix it?
First of all, the generation of api is for editing only, not running your code.
Resolve the ambiguity with versions by adding full path to command lines (Hope, you do so in the 5th point of the question details)
The problem is in the line:
n = int(input("Number? "))
Here you want input from user, i.e. interactive running, but editor runs commands inside its process and can output simply.
Change your code by adding variable instead of the input command
n=5
or use parameters http://www.scintilla.org/SciTEDoc.html#property-if
Good luck!