cellstr & strcat matlab inconsistenc

[Sergei Steshenko]

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

> > octave:1> strcat ("", "ab")
> > ans = ab
> > octave:2>
> > "
> >
> > - IMO it is the desired result.
> >
> 
> This patch applies to development sources. It seems that changeset
> 7608 (a rewrite of strcat) was not applied to release branch,
> therefore you have the old strcat (now cstrcat).
> Try cellstr ('') instead, it should give you empty cell array (it
> gives {''} in Matlab).
> 

"
Yep:

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octave:1> cellstr ('')
ans = {}(0x0)
octave:2> 
".

Regards,
  Sergei.

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