[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #58617] cell2struct silently truncates char matrices

[John W. Eaton]

Update of bug #58617 (project octave):

                  Status:               Confirmed => Ready For Test         

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Follow-up Comment #5:

The extra return statement was probably left over from when error didn't throw
an exception, so we just set error_state and returned.

One issue is definitely bug #49536, that string_value is only returning the
first row of a character array and truncating arrays without warning.

RE comment #1, cellstr (['foo';'bar';'baz']) creates a 3x1 cell array with
each element containing a 1x3 character array, but {['foo';'bar';'baz']}
creates a 1x1 cell array containing a 3x3 character array.

I pushed the following change for the immediate problem with cell2struct and
will leave the problem with string_value/cellstr_value to bug #49536.

http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/b3770a5f210d

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