[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #41553] sq_string text format includes length for every element

[Mike Miller]

Follow-up Comment #6, bug #41553 (project octave):

Also note the way I read the comment describing the format, the parser is
intentionally permissive to different lengths, so something like this


# name: a
# type: string
# elements: 4
# length: 3
foo
# length: 9
something
# length: 1
a
# length: 23
this is a longer string


loads perfectly well into Octave, even though that is not what Octave produces
using the save command.

So the padding is not strictly necessary, as this example shows, but padded
strings is indeed how Octave will write out an ordinary character matrix.

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