Re: Octave doesn't show quotes when strings which are cell array values are displayed

[c.]

On 25 Nov 2012, at 12:32, c. wrote:

> 
> On 25 Nov 2012, at 11:31, Sergei Steshenko wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> here is a screen session:
>> 
>> "
>> octave:27> CA{1}{1} = 2012
>> CA =
>> {
>>  [1,1] =
>>  {
>>    [1,1] =  2012
>>  }
>> }
>> octave:28> CA{1}{2} = "2012"
>> CA =
>> {
>>  [1,1] =
>>  {
>>    [1,1] =  2012
>>    [1,2] = 2012
>>  }
>> }
>> octave:29> whos("CA{1}{1}")
>> Variables in the current scope:
>> 
>>   Attr Name          Size                     Bytes  Class
>>   ==== ====          ====                     =====  =====
>>        CA{1}{1}      1x1                          8  double
>> 
>> Total is 1 element using 8 bytes
>> 
>> octave:30> whos("CA{1}{2}")
>> Variables in the current scope:
>> 
>>   Attr Name          Size                     Bytes  Class
>>   ==== ====          ====                     =====  =====
>>        CA{1}{2}      1x4                          4  char
>> 
>> Total is 4 elements using 4 bytes
>> 
>> octave:31>   
>> ".
>> 
>> One can see that except for whitespaces both '2012' are displayed the same 
>> way, though Octave internally knows type - double vs char.
>> 
>> So, why some kind of quotes is not displayed to indicate string values ?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>>  Sergei.
> 
> 
> 
> That's not really related to cell-arrays, that's the way Octave displays 
> strings:
> 
>>> "2012"
> ans = 2012
>>> 2012
> ans =  2012


Matlab, instead, seems to behave differently depending on whether the string is 
an element in a cell array:

>> 2012  

ans =

        2012

>> '2012'

ans =

2012

>> {2012,'2012'}

ans = 

    [2012]    '2012'

>> 

c.