[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #49536] many functions that expect a "string" silently truncate char matrix arguments (octave_value::string_value)

[Philip Nienhuis]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #49536 (project octave):

Is this really a problem?
AFAICS char matrices aren't often used. cellstr arrays are much more
practical.

Matlab has the same issue and even behaves slightly worse (which in a way is
reassuring :-) )

Could transposing a char array before feeding it to string functions help?
For sprintf with-a-format-string, help and strrep it works to the extent that
a 1xN vector is returned but in the right "order"; the other functions you
mention are still oblivious.


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