[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #50855] new Matlab string array syntax

[Guillaume]

Follow-up Comment #8, bug #50855 (project octave):

@Markus: thanks for this. Could your patch be pushed in Octave? I guess
"unicode_idx" could be renamed "__unicode_idx__" too.

Very low hanging fruit but I attach possible implementations of
convertStringsToChars, convertContainedStringsToChars, convertCharsToStrings
and isStringScalar. They, of course, only make sense when the string class
will be implemented (esp. convertCharsToStrings) but, like isstring, they can
already be useful for compatibility with Matlab.
There is one issue with curly brackets in the help text (example section) but
I am not sure how to fix it. Octave's documentation currently already refers
to 'strings' when meaning char arrays or row char vectors (see e.g. strfind)
-- I tried to be more explicit for the help text of these functions but it
might still require perfecting.

(file #51543, file #51544, file #51545, file #51546)
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