Re: toascii() function missing

Thank you Nicholas,

I was looking in the wrong place. Thank you for the pointer.

As a personal interpretation, I wouldn't suggest double() as a
replacement of toascii(). Character codes aren't double values. I would
prefer int8() or int16().

Regards,

Gustavo

Às 13:12 de 22/03/21, Nicholas Jankowski escreveu:
> 
> 
> 
>     I've saw a previous message on octave-maintainers suggesting that this
>     function could be deprecated:
>     https://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Any-need-for-toascii-td4686354.html
>     <https://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Any-need-for-toascii-td4686354.html>
> 
>     My question is: has this function been deprecated?
> 
> 
> According to the release notes for v4.4 toascii was deprecated for
> removal in Octave v6
> 
> https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/NEWS-4.4.html#deprecated-functions-and-properties
> <https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/NEWS-4.4.html#deprecated-functions-and-properties>
> 

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