cellstr & strcat matlab inconsistency

[Sergei Steshenko]

--- Jaroslav Hajek <highegg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> in current Octave strcat ("", "ab") produces an error instead of the
> obvious desired result.

I am not sure there is an error:

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octave:1> strcat ("", "ab")
ans = ab
octave:2>  
"

- IMO it is the desired result.

Regards,
  Sergei.



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