shortest path algorithm based on a recursive function

The following code is correct 90% of the time. Anybody can find the bug?

function dis=wrong(node1,nodes,node2)

% distance node 1->node 2 thru intermediate nodes (\1, 2)

global W% weight matrix

if isempty(nodes)% 1->2 directly when nodes empty

dis=W(node1,node2);return;

end

% d(1,nodes,2)=min{W(1,i)+wrong(i,nodesSub,2),i}

for ii=1:length(nodes)

i=nodes(ii);

nodesSub=nodes;nodesSub(ii)=[];% remove i from nodesSub

disTemp(ii)=wrong(i,nodesSub,node2);

disTemp(ii)=W(node1,i)+disTemp(ii);% 1->i->2

end

disTemp(ii+1)=W(node1,node2);% 1->2 directly

% optimum route

[dis,im]=min(disTemp);

[Stephen23]

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"shortest path algorithm based on a recursive function"

The following code is correct 90% of the time. Anybody can find the bug?

function dis=wrong(node1,nodes,node2)
% distance node 1->node 2 thru intermediate nodes (\1, 2)
global W% weight matrix
if isempty(nodes)% 1->2 directly when nodes empty
    dis=W(node1,node2);return;
end
% d(1,nodes,2)=min{W(1,i)+wrong(i,nodesSub,2),i}
for ii=1:length(nodes)
    i=nodes(ii);
    nodesSub=nodes;nodesSub(ii)=[];% remove i from nodesSub
    disTemp(ii)=wrong(i,nodesSub,node2);
    disTemp(ii)=W(node1,i)+disTemp(ii);% 1->i->2
end
disTemp(ii+1)=W(node1,node2);% 1->2 directly
% optimum route
[dis,im]=min(disTemp);
											
              
            

[Rena Berman]

(Answers Dev) Restored edit

Answer 1

[Steven Lord]

If you have a (small, simple) test case where the answer your code gives differs from the answer you expected it to give, have you tried debugging your code on that test case using the debugging tools included in MATLAB? You can step through your code line by line and compare what the results at each step are to what the results should be.

[feynman feynman]

yes, i did. it works so well as to be correct >90% of the time that i didn't find any problem when debugging it.

[Steven Lord]

You asked "Anybody can find the bug?" If you've tested it thoroughly, why do you think there is a bug?

Or did you mean "Can anybody find a bug in this code?" asking for the readers of MATLAB Answers to do some manual testing on your code to determine if there's a bug in your code not where a bug is in your code?

[feynman feynman]

close question please