Re: strfind() and numeric arrays

[Philip Nienhuis]

bpabbott wrote
> 
> On May 27, 2012, at 7:54 PM, Júlio Hoffimann wrote:
> 
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> I think this is one of those "features" Octave don't need to copy from
>> MATLAB?
>> 
>> strfind([1 2 3],[1 2]) works.
>> 
>> Being more explicit, in MATLAB *str*find() works with numeric data types.
>> I see the implementation in Octave DLD-FUNCTIONS/strfind.cc, it's very
>> clear about non-string arguments.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Júlio.
> 
> The Matlab behavior could be very useful. For example,
> 
>       strfind([1 2 pi],[2 pi])
> 
>       ans =  2
> 
> Thus, I think his qualifies as a bug.
> 
> Please file a bug report.
> 
>       https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php
> 
> Ben
> 

FWIW, earlier on there were some bug reports about similar issues: mixing
strings and numeric input in some basic function. #33537 (lower) was one of
them; it's still open.

Philip


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