strcat in octave 3.2.0-mingw32

[John W. Eaton]

On  1-Jul-2009, Christoph Ellenberger wrote:

| Using the binaries provided from sourceforge I encountered the following problem
| 
| > strcat('test ', 'space', ' in ' , ' between')
| ans = testspace in between
| octave-3.2.0.exe:44:U:\Daten
| > strcat("test ", "space", " in " , " between")
| ans = testspace in between
| octave-3.2.0.exe:45:U:\Daten
| 
| Spaces at the end of strings are being cut away, this is obviously a different behaviour as in 3.0.3.... Is this the intended behaviour or a bug ?

It's an intentional change for compatibility with Matlab.

We introduced the cstrcat function as a replacement that doesn't drop
spaces.

jwe