From f43ee91ed8fe2759c3918e3b270701027b8f456c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Pfeifer <jpfeifer@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 6 May 2021 10:58:46 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Filter out "Dot indexing is not supported for variables of
this type." error if variable conflicts with namespace
---
matlab/dynare.m | 9 +++++++--
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/matlab/dynare.m b/matlab/dynare.m
index 57bff4d184..3f1310e2ce 100644
--- a/matlab/dynare.m
+++ b/matlab/dynare.m
@@ -280,8 +280,13 @@ clear(['+' fname '/driver'])
try
evalin('base',[fname '.driver']) ;
catch ME
- diary off
- rethrow(ME)
+ W = evalin('base','whos');
+ diary off
+ if ismember(fname,[W(:).name])
+ error('Your base workspace already contains a variable with the same name as the mod-file.\nYou need to delete it or rename the mod-file.')
+ else
+ rethrow(ME)
+ end
end
diary off
--
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