padding in arguments string array for popen2 or exec

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Olaf Till <olaf.till at uni-jena.de> wrote:
> I did not notice that one can pass a cell-array instead of a
> string-array to popen2. Since it works with a cell array, the problem
> seems less important.
>
> Olaf

Cell array is what is meant by default when talking about "array of
strings" in Octave. Character matrices need padding, and are thus
inferior for most purposes. (unless your strings are really of
approximately equal length).

cheers


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