Re: strcmp with cell array does not work

[Carnë Draug]

On 27 December 2012 18:00,  <address@hidden> wrote:
> Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 03:48:16 -0800 (PST)
> From: ash <address@hidden>
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> Subject: strcmp with cell array does not work
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>
> Hi all.
>
> I have two cell-arrays of strings and I need to compare them.
> they are :
>
>  hdr.x
> ans =
> {
>   [1,1] = aaa
>
>   [2,1] = abc
>
>   [3,1] = cde
>
>   [4,1] = efg
>
>   [5,1] = sdfg
>
>   [6,1] = sd34
>
> }
>
> octave:16> hdr.y
> hdr.y =
> {
>   [1,1] = sdfg
>   [2,1] = yyy
>   [3,1] = rrr
>   [4,1] = erty6
> }
>
> when i use strcmp(hdr.y,hdr.x(5))
> it returns 0. why, if the first element of hdr.y is the same of the fifth of
> hdr.x ?
>
> If i use strcmp(hdr.y(1),hdr.x(5)) it returns 0 again!
> I'm confused.
> The same strcmp with the same arrays in matlab seem to work.
>
> Octave version 3.6.1

I can't reproduce with Octave 3.6.2

octave:1> hdr.x = {"aaa", "abc", "cde", "efg", "sdfg", "sd34"};
octave:2> hdr.y = {"sdfg", "yyy", "rrr", "erty6"};
octave:3> strcmp (hdr.y, hdr.x(5))
ans =

   1   0   0   0

octave:4> strcmp (hdr.y(1), hdr.x(5))
ans =  1

Carnë