Re: any() on cells ?

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Dupuis <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I've just posted a workaround for a problem I encountered. Short summary: a
> script may either be run under octave in interactive mode, either as a
> standalone app. In the latter case, I wish to keep the window open until the
> user presses a key. I implemented a test, looping on the cell array obtained
> by
> strfind(argv(), 'script_name')
> This test could be shortened if the function 'any', applied to a cell array,
> worked with the same semantic as on a matrix, that is, apply the test
> 'column' wise, and return 1 if any of the element of the column is not empty
> and has a value which is not zero.
>
> Could this be implemented without breaking existing scripts ?
>
> Regards
>
> Pascal

Please do not cross-reference to other threads. Try restating your
problem cleanly and from the scratch.
I think what you need is easily doable through cellfun, but your
description is a bit chaotic to be really sure.

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