Re: fprintf compatibility

[Paul Kienzle]

John W. Eaton wrote:

> What do you think about this feature of Matlab?
>
>  >> fprintf ('%s\n', [111; 100; 100]);
>  odd
>
> I know that Matlab (originally, anyway, though perhaps not anymore)
> stores strings as double precision matrices with a flag set saying to
> interpret the numbers as ASCII and print them as strings, etc.  But
> the matrix here is not even tagged as a string!
>
> So, should Octave copy this bug^H^H^Hfeature?
Won't this happen already with implicit_num_to_str_ok = 1?

Okay, no it doesn't.

Even if it did, shouldn't it output the following:

o
d
d

I have nothing in particular against implicit char->num/num->char, but I 
also don't
mind putting setstr() around the matrices.  I'm a little disappointed that
sprintf('%s\n',['o';'d';'d']) doesn't print a column though.

- Paul