Re: Help with mixed numeric/char operations

[John W. Eaton]

On 06/30/2014 04:24 PM, Серёжа Плотников wrote:
> Matlab returns empty matrix as well:
>
>  >> 'A' + 1:3
> ans =
>     Empty matrix: 1-by-0
>
> /Be happy,/
> /Sergey/
>
>
> 2014-06-30 22:22 GMT+02:00 Rik <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>>:
>
>     All,
>
>     Could someone test what Matlab does with
>
>     'A' + 1:3
>
>     Octave returns an empty matrix, but it might also be legitimate to
>     return
>     'BCD' or [66 67 68].

It returns an empty matrix because it is parsed as

  ('A' + 1) : 3

Try

  'A' + (1:3)

instead.

jwe