Re: invalid conversion from string to complex N-d array

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Thomas Weber
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:10:46AM +0200, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:13 AM, Judd Storrs <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > I'm working on getting the Matlab NIFTI libraries from niftilib.sf.net
>> > running under octave. I've been able to isolate a bug as a difference
>> > between octave (both 3.0.1 and 3.1.55) and matlab:
>> >
>> > octave:1> [ '' 65*ones(1,10) ]
>> > error: invalid conversion from string to complex N-d array
>> > octave:1> [ 65*ones(1,10) '' ]
>> > error: invalid conversion from string to complex N-d array
>> >
>> > But in matlab these succeed:
>> >
>> >>> [ '' 65*ones(1,10) ]
>> >
>> > ans =
>> >
>> > AAAAAAAAAA
>> >
>> >>> [ 65*ones(1,10) '' ]
>> >
>> > ans =
>> >
>> > AAAAAAAAAA
>> >
>> >
>> > --judd
>> >
>>
>> I checked in the following patch fixing behavior with zero-by-zero matrices:
>> http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/53364bb317d4
>> and this one allowing range->string conversion:
>> http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/a48c500e48e1
>>
>> I think this was, in total, the right thing to do, but I can't check
>> with Matlab now. In any case everything seems working.
>
> Test cases for it attached.
>
>        Thomas
>

thanks, applied.

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RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek
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