Re: Copying strings problem

[Bill Denney]

On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Madhusudan Singh wrote:

> I have the following statement in a loop :
>
> colnames(k)=strread(k+1,:)
>
> where strread is a string array is created from a string using split().
>
> It quits with an error :
>
> error: A(I) = X: X must be a scalar or a vector with same length as I
>
> Which I do not understand at all. Why would octave try to compare the 
> RHS with the *subscript* on the left ?

This error means that the right hand side of the arguement is not the same 
size as the left hand side.  Another example that may give this error 
would be:

a = [1:3]
a(2,:) = [1:4]

because a has three columns and the rhs has four columns.

In your example, you are trying to assign a row to one element (the kth 
element).

You probably meant to do something like

colnames(k,:)=strread(k+1,:)

and, if you meant to just strip off the first column of strread, you could 
do that better by just doing something like

colnames = strread(2:end,:)

Bill

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