[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #36555] strfind() should work with numeric arrays

[Rik]

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #36555 (project octave):

Yeah, this is somewhat bogus.  Matlab clearly documents, and the function name
presumes, that the input should be a character array.  Yet, it seems that it
really only cares if the input is numeric.

I took a quick stab at fixing this, but it fails for floating point and
complex numbers.  If we want to fix this it probably means major surgery on
strfind.cc which doesn't seem worth the effort.

My crude stab bypassing the input validation is attached.

(file #50518)
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