Re: displaying structure arrays

[Francesco Potortì]

>| It seems to me that displaying structure arrays has changed in 3.1.
>| Now, I get this:
>| 
>| octave> x = 1:10;
>| octave> N = length(x);
>| 
>| octave> y = repmat(struct('field1',[],'field2',[]),1,N)
>| y =
>| {
>|   1x10 struct array containing the fields:
>| 
>|     field1
>|     field2
>| }
>| 
>| I think that this behaviour is due to this change:
>| 
>| 2008-03-07  John W. Eaton  <address@hidden>
>| 
>|      * ov-struct.cc (octave_struct::print_raw): Don't print contents fo
>|      struct arrays that have more than one element.
>| 
>| 
>| How can I see the fields' contents all at once?
>
>If you think the behavior in the development version is bad, then I
>think we should discuss what it should do on the maintainers list.

In fact, I think it is better than before, as a default.  However, there
are times I would like to have a quick look at the whole contents of the
struct array (for small ones, at least).

Maybe disp() could behave differently and show everything?  Or there
could be a function controlling the printout, in the spirit of
struct_levels_to_print() ?

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