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Re: strcat behavior


From: Ben Abbott
Subject: Re: strcat behavior
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 21:08:39 -0400

On Sep 9, 2013, at 8:59 PM, Rik wrote:

> 9/9/13
> 
> Does anyone remember why we convert double to char in strcat before doing
> the concatenation?  Is this undocumented Matlab behavior?
> 
> As an example,
> 
> strcat ([97.123], "bc")
>  => "abc"
> 
> It seems preferable to me to warn when non-string objects are using for
> string concatenation.
> 
> --Rik


That is how Matlab behaves

        strcat ([97.123], 'bc')

        ans =

        abc

Ben


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