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bug #47192: sprintf on transposed strings different in Octave and Matlab (Octave only prints first char)

Submitter:  Richard <crobar>
Submitted:  Thu 18 Feb 2016 03:46:59 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Octave Function Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Regression
Status:  Fixed Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Richard Crozier Open/Closed:  * Closed
Release:  * 4.0.1-rc1 Operating System:  * Any
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  None
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Thu 18 Feb 2016 08:14:26 PM UTC, comment #4: 

It seems to work for me so I pushed the changeset on stable and merged to default:

http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/596e19e7e571
http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/e0523c40a802

John W. Eaton <jwe>
Group administrator
Thu 18 Feb 2016 07:29:22 PM UTC, comment #3: 

Here's a patch to try.  I'm running tests now.  With some luck it doesn't break something else...

(file #36389)

John W. Eaton <jwe>
Group administrator
Thu 18 Feb 2016 06:06:52 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Retitling as a regression, since earlier versions did this (what I assume for now is) correctly


3.6.4:
sprintf ("%s", repmat ("blah", 4, 1))
ans = bbbbllllaaaahhhh

3.8.2:
sprintf ("%s", repmat ("blah", 4, 1))
ans = bbbbllllaaaahhhh

4.0.0:
sprintf ("%s", repmat ("blah", 4, 1))
ans = blah


Mike Miller <mtmiller>
Group Member
Thu 18 Feb 2016 06:03:19 PM UTC, comment #1: 

What does Matlab return when given a character matrix, e.g.


sprintf('%s', repmat('blah',4,1))


Mike Miller <mtmiller>
Group Member
Thu 18 Feb 2016 03:46:59 PM UTC, original submission:  


In Matlab I get the following:


>> sprintf('%s', 'blah')

ans =

blah

>> sprintf('%s', ('blah')')

ans =

blah


In Octave I get:


octave:11> sprintf('%s', 'blah')
ans = blah
octave:12> sprintf('%s', ('blah')')
ans = b


So, as you can see, in Octave only the first character of the transposed string is printed, but for matlab the untransposed and transposed case is the same.


Richard <crobar>

 

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