Re: char behavior

[John W. Eaton]

On  8-Oct-2011, Rik wrote:

| On 10/08/2011 08:35 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
|
| > There is an incompatibility problem. 
| >
| > With char(M,N) ML returns a character array with size [MxN]
| >
| > Thus, char() should behave like ones(), zeros(), cell(), etc.
|
| Is this more undocumented Matlab weirdness?  I don't see this behavior in
| their documentation (http://www.mathworks.com/help/techdoc/ref/char.html). 
| What character did they choose to fill the new character matrix with?
| 
| This code snippet should produce a 5x3 matrix and show the integer value of
| whatever fill character they used.
| 
| double (char (5, 3))

Also, what version of Matlab do you have where you see this behavior?

jwe