bug in char, str2mat and strvcat behaviour?

[Ben Abbott]

On Nov 7, 2008, at 7:06 AM, David Bateman wrote:

> To fix the behavior of char in Octave the convert_to_str method of  
> the octave_value class needs to be changed. However, that will have  
> other implications, particularly for mixed type operation. Like what  
> does matlab return for
>
> char(50,50,[],50)
> char([50;50;[],50])
> [50;"2";"";"2"]

Running Matlab 2008b

 >> char(50,50,[],50)

ans =

2
2

2

char([50;50;[],50])

ans =

2
2
2

[50;'2';'';'2']

ans =

2
2
2

Ben