MATLAB: Is there an extra ‘-‘ in one of the examples for the TITLE function in the MATLAB 7.1 (R14SP3) documentation

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The examples in the documentation for the TITLE function appears to have an extra "-" for calcualting the variable "c":

f = 70;
c = (f--32)/1.8;
title(['Temperature is ',num2str(c),'C'])

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This bug has been fixed in Release 2006b (R2006b). For previous product releases, read below for any possible workarounds:

There is an error in the documentation for the TITLE function in MATLAB 7.1 (R14SP3). The documentation example should read as follows:

f = 70;
c = (f-32)/1.8;
title(['Temperature is ',num2str(c),'C'])

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This bug has been fixed in Release 14 Service Pack 3 (R14SP3). For previous product releases, read below for any possible workarounds:

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There are no workarounds.

MATLAB: Textscan: how to ignore single ‘-‘ characters, while preserving ‘-‘ in negative numbers

Try this

    str = fileread('cssm.txt');
    str = strrep( str, '-;', 'nan;' );
    nl  = [char(13),char(10)];
    str = regexprep( str, [';-\s*',nl], [';nan',nl] );
    C = textscan( str,'%s%f%f%f%f%f%f%f%f','headerlines',1,'delimiter',';');

where cssm.txt contains the rows of text in the question

The approach is

read the whole file as text
replace the "-", which stands for missing, with NaN
parse the modified string with textscan

Note: the value of the variable, nl, must match the end of line characters in your file.

Jan, thanks for formatting the question.

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