webread Error "Expected input to be a vector"

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Emily
Emily on 3 May 2018
Edited: Emily on 8 Aug 2018
Hi, I am getting an error when I use webread, but only on certain machines and in certain versions. What other things should I check?
I get this problem with Windows 10, Matlab R2017b, Windows 7 Matlab R2017b and R2018a
url = 'http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange';
searchTerm = 'sensor-data-acquisition';
html = webread(url,'term',searchTerm)
Error using webread (line 119)
Expected input to be a vector.
But it succeeds with Windows 10, Matlab R2018a
url = 'http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange';
searchTerm = 'sensor-data-acquisition';
html = webread(url,'term',searchTerm)}
html =
'<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge"/> ... }
end
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Maurice
Maurice on 14 May 2018
I have just solved my own problem ... in my case, I had an old version of strjoin.m in my path above the newer R2018b version ... I removed the offending version from the path and it now works for me ... perhaps you have a similar problem? Good luck ...
Emily
Emily on 8 Aug 2018
Edited: Emily on 8 Aug 2018
It turned out to work on my Linux box. I guess I must have some conflicting script in my PC path that I haven't found yet. I'll look at strjoin. Thanks for the suggestion!

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