sscanf "inconsistency" ?

[Peter Jensen]

Hi,

I am new to octave. Writing some small test programs
I found the following "inconsistency" in the sscanf
function. When numbers are extracted a column
array  is returned, however if strings are extracted
a row array is returned.  Please note that the number of
fields identified ( written to length) is correct in both cases.

Have I misunderstood something, or is sscanf
behaving is an inconsistent manner ?.

Peter
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text    = "This is OK" ;
numbers = "1 2 3 4 5" ;

text
[return_string,length] = sscanf(text,"%s") ;
length
return_string
a = ["this" ; "is" ; "OK"]

numbers
[return_number,length] = sscanf(numbers,"%d") ;
length
return_number

a  = [ 6 ; 7 ; 8 ; 9 ]




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