Re: strcat not converting cell into string...in Octave 4.2.2

[Ben Abbott]

On Apr 29, 2018, at 10:21 AM, RT <address@hidden> wrote:

Greetings
After a M file was completed I would have Octave 4.0 execute a simple audio command "espeak" to tell me when a crossfade was completed.

The line below worked in octave 4.0 on ubuntu 16.04 64bit
system (strcat({'espeak '},'"' ,'Done with cross fade','"'))

but when I upgraded to ubuntu 18.04 which has Octave 4.2.2
I get an error
error: wrong type argument 'cell'
error: system: first argument must be a string

I thought strcat was suppose to convert everything into a string?  any work arounds?

Thanks

I expect a change was made for compatibility with Matlab.

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strcat({'espeak '},'"' ,'Done with cross fade','”')

ans = 

    'espeak "Done with cross fade"'

whos ans

  Name      Size            Bytes  Class    Attributes

  ans       1x1               170  cell

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A simple fix is to covert to a cs-list (this works for Octave, but not Matlab).

system (strcat({'espeak '},'"' ,'Done with cross fade','”’){:})

Ben