[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #59264] issymmetric says false for symmetric character matrices

[Rik]

Update of bug #59264 (project octave):

                  Status:                    None => Fixed                  
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 
                 Release:                   5.2.0 => dev                    

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Follow-up Comment #1:

Confirmed.  This was being done partially for Matlab compatibility.  Matlab
does not accept character matrices as input, but it does throw an error when
you try to use them.  The error is helpful in tracking things down.

I agree that there isn't any problem extending the notion of symmetry to
character matrices.  I made that change on the default branch here
(http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/1572a4329015).  This will be a
part of the 7.1 release.  If you need it sooner you can copy the m-file from
Octave's Mercurial repository, or use


tmp = single (char_matrix);
issymetric (tmp)
  

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