Thread Subject: Weird publish behavior

Hi everyone,

I got recently a strange behavior with the publish function.
My code creates a m-file with embedded html tags: this file
is then passed to "publish" in order to generate the html.
The part of the code which fails is the publish command, and
it is something like

%% Create html
options.evalCode = 'false';
options.outputDir = 'OutputPathName';
publish(fullfile(InputPathName,FileName),options);

Where FileName is my m-file with embedded html.

The problem I get is that if I choose to store the output in
the current directory (where all the main scripts are
located), it works; if I choose a different location it fails!!
In both cases there is a previous routine which creates if
necessary the required directories!

The error I get is:

??? Operands to the || and && operators must be convertible
to logical scalar values.

Error in ==> publish at 109
elseif
~strcmpi(strrep(fullPathToScript,'/',filesep),which(file))
&& ...

Any idea of the problem source?!?

Thanks everyone!

Stefano

I think is a kind of bug. I fixed the problem with this trick:


root = cd;
cd(PathName);
publish(fullfile(PathName,FileName),options);
cd(root);

and I get everything correct. It seems like publish needs to
have the input file in the current directory...
I hope this can help,

Stefano

I think I see what's going on here. Instead of saying:

   options.evalCode = 'false';

try this:

  options.evalCode = false;

This option should be the scalar logical "false", and not
the char array "false".

Even so, you should be getting a better error message here.

You are right! I misled 0 (or false()) with the string 'false'.
But... I still don't understand why it doesn't give problems
if you move the current directory to the directory where the
input is located...
Thanks!

Stefano

&& always wants an expression that evaluates to a scalar
logical and 'false' doesn't, which is the error message
you're seeing. In the situation that's working for you, the
&& short-circuits and the second half is never evaluated.

http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/logicaloperatorsshortcircuit.html