Re: Error with pkg.m (== isspace does work with cell arrays anymore)

[Daniel J Sebald]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 25-Feb-2008, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>
> | so why couldn't we do:
> | 
> | octave:34> filenames{:}(:)
> | error: can't perform indexing operations for cs-list type
> | octave:34>
> | 
> | in the instance where every element of the list is a character?
>
> Because a comma separated list (the result of something like
> filenames{:}) is not something that can be assigned a single variable.
> Think of it as an argument list, not a single object.

Oh, OK... Wait, got it.  Try this syntax:

octave:1> filenames = {'this' 'is' 'a' 'test'}
filenames =

{
 [1,1] = this
 [1,2] = is
 [1,3] = a
 [1,4] = test
}

octave:2> [filenames{}]
ans = thisisatest
octave:3> isspace([filenames{}])
ans =

  0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0

octave:4> filenames2 = {' ' ' ' ' ' ' '}
filenames2 =

{
 [1,1] =
 [1,2] =
 [1,3] =
 [1,4] =
}

octave:5> isspace([filenames2{}])
ans =

  1   1   1   1

octave:6>


It's actually kind of nice it works that way.  Does that work for you Michael?  Replacing all 
"filenames" by "[filenames{}]" in pkg.m?

Dan