Re: sscanf "inconsistency" ?

[Henry F. Mollet]

I'm getting something slightly different. Not sure if it helps.
Henry

octave:37> text    = "This is OK" ;
octave:38> numbers = "1 2 3 4 5" ;
octave:39> [return_string,length] = sscanf(text,"%s") ;
octave:40> length
length = 3
octave:41> return_string
return_string = ThisisOK

octave:43> [return_number,length] = sscanf(numbers,"%d") ;
octave:44> length
length = 5
octave:45> return_number
return_number =

  1
  2
  3
  4
  5


on 10/20/04 2:09 PM, Peter Jensen at address@hidden wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am new to octave. Writing some small test programs
> I found the following "inconsistency" in the sscanf
> function. When numbers are extracted a column
> array  is returned, however if strings are extracted
> a row array is returned.  Please note that the number of
> fields identified ( written to length) is correct in both cases.
> 
> Have I misunderstood something, or is sscanf
> behaving is an inconsistent manner ?.
> 
> Peter
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> 
> text    = "This is OK" ;
> numbers = "1 2 3 4 5" ;
> 
> text
> [return_string,length] = sscanf(text,"%s") ;
> length
> return_string
> a = ["this" ; "is" ; "OK"]
> 
> numbers
> [return_number,length] = sscanf(numbers,"%d") ;
> length
> return_number
> 
> a  = [ 6 ; 7 ; 8 ; 9 ]
> 
> 
> 
> 
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