Re: strfind() and numeric arrays

[Ben Abbott]

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