[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #46002] After, LIST = ls (...) each row of LIST is an output row, not a filename

[Rik]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #46002 (project octave):

It looks like if we really want to be Matlab compatible then we should just be
returning the bare output of the system() call.  See
http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/ls.html.  In particular


Output Arguments

list

    On UNIX® platforms, list is a character row vector of names separated by
tab and space characters.

    On Microsoft® Windows® platforms, list is an m-by-n character array of
names—m is the number of names and n is the number of characters in the
longest name. MATLAB® pads names shorter than n characters with space
characters.


But that just seems stupid.  I think I like your patch.  I will look at
pushing it this weekend.


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