[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #51848] Variable editor should show text strings in one cell, not as separate chars each in distinct cells

[Rik]

Follow-up Comment #16, bug #51848 (project octave):

I see what you are saying, but try something which is a full cellstr such as


x = {"Hello", "World", "!"}
openvar x


Now try changing the second element to a number


x{2} = 5;


On my machine, the first cellstr example works as well as the next example.

I think there is an error in how Octave is computing whether something is a
string (1xN vector) or a char array (MxN).

Try


x = num2cell (rand (3))
openvar x
x{1,1} = "Hello"
x{2,1} = "World"


The first element of x displays as a string; the second element displays as
'[1x5 string]'.

See the attached screenshot.

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