cell->char loses blank entries

[John W. Eaton]

On 10-Dec-2007, Walt Ogburn wrote:

| Bug report for Octave 2.9.12 configured for i486-pc-linux-gnu
| 
| Description:
| -----------
| 
| When a cell array of strings is converted to a character array,
| any blank entries are lost.
| 
| Repeat-By:
| ---------
| 
| debug> char ({'k', '', '', 'f', 'g'})
| ans =
| 
| k
| f
| g
| 
| debug> size (char ({'k', '', '', 'f', 'g'}))
| ans =
| 
|    3   1

Please try the following patch.

Thanks,

jwe


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