[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #34967] Bad behavior of structures with an empty cell

[Mike Miller]

Update of bug #34967 (project octave):

                Priority:              5 - Normal => 3 - Low                
              Item Group:        Incorrect Result => Matlab Compatibility   
                  Status:               Need Info => Confirmed              
        Operating System:               GNU/Linux => Any                    

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Follow-up Comment #5:

I think we would want to aim for Matlab compatibility here, so I had someone
test for me.


>> s = struct('name', {});


This is a zero-length struct array with one field "name".

Non-existent fields always return an error, whether the size of the struct
array is zero or not, so for us this should look like:


>> size(s)
ans =
   0   0
>> s.foo
error: structure has no member 'foo'


Valid field names should return an empty cs-list when the struct array size is
zero, so using it alone fails with an error but concatenation in an array
should work.

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