STRCAT is not compatible

[Ben Abbott]

On Feb 20, 2008, at 11:30 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 20-Feb-2008, Ben Abbott wrote:
>
> | I'll think this over. If no one else comes up with a solution, I'll
> | take a shot at it.
>
> OK.  Another thing to look at is what hapens for trailing whitespace.
> For example, try
>
>  strcat ('foo ', 'bar')
>  strcat ('foo', ' ', 'bar')
>
>  strcat ({'foo '}, {'bar '})
>  strcat ({'foo'}, {' '}, {'bar'})
>
> in Matlab.
>
> Compatibility with this behavior will cause some trouble for existing
> Octave code.
>
> jwe

hmmm ... It appears that the Matlab version converts string data to  
cells of strings before doing its work.

Where will this cause trouble?

Ben