[OctDev] datevec bugs

[Daniel J Sebald]

OK, thanks Søren...

Folks, attached is a small patch to fix a couple bugs in datevec.m so that it works with string arrays and cell string arrays.

Dan

PS: A faster version of datevec would be welcome.  It seems to require 7/100 of a second to do a single conversion on my machine.



Søren Hauberg wrote:
> ons, 10 12 2008 kl. 03:05 -0600, skrev Daniel J Sebald:
> 
>> Here is a patch to fix some problems with datevec in working with
>> string arrays and cell arrays.  One bug is a strange assignment of
>> all strings to a cell of size 1 when cellstr() seems clearly
>> preferred.  A second bug is that length() gives an incorrect value
>> when the number of date strings is greater than the character
>> width.
> 
> 
> 'datevec' seems to be part of core Octave, so could you send your
> patch to bug at octave.org? Otherwise, I fear people with commit access
> to Octave won't see your patch.
> 
> Søren

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