[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #35481] [var{:}] does not collapse empty elements when some elements are cell

[Garrett]

Follow-up Comment #7, bug #35481 (project octave):

Haha, it took me a week but I completely agree.  This is a bug in Matlab and
in my code (for making use of it).  I was concatenating the elements of a cell
array which were either cellstr arrays or untouched (and thus set as [] from
the 'cell' call).  Matlab would trim off the untouched elements in the
[var{:}] operation while Octave did not.  This was convenient but incorrect. 
I now initialize the variable with a cell array of empty CELL arrays.  That
works as desired in both Octave & Matlab, avoids mixed-type concatenation and
avoids Matlab's bug of aggressive trimming in mixed-type concatenation with
cell arrays.

Thanks Philip & Ben!

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