Index: str2num.m
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RCS file: /cvs/octave/scripts/strings/str2num.m,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -r1.5 str2num.m
--- str2num.m	8 Sep 2005 01:40:58 -0000	1.5
+++ str2num.m	7 Feb 2006 20:08:12 -0000
@@ -19,13 +19,20 @@
 
 ## -*- texinfo -*-
 ## @deftypefn {Function File} {} str2num (@var{s})
-## Convert the string @var{s} to a number.
+## Convert the string or cell @var{s} to a number.
 ## @end deftypefn
 
 ## Author: jwe
 
 function m = str2num (s)
 
+  startcell = 0;
+  if (iscellstr (s))
+    startsize = size (s);
+    startcell = 1;
+    s = strvcat (s(:));
+  endif
+
   if (nargin == 1 && ischar (s))
     [nr, nc] = size (s);
     sep = ";";
@@ -39,4 +46,8 @@
     usage ("str2num (s)");
   endif
 
+  if (startcell)
+    m = reshape (m, startsize);
+  endif
+
 endfunction