[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #60555] Behavior of strcat in Octave is different of the behavior in Matlab

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                 Summary: Behavior of strcat in Octave is different of the
behavior in Matlab
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Sat 08 May 2021 09:43:20 AM UTC
                Category: Octave Function
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Matlab Compatibility
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Thomas Stein
        Originator Email: thomas.stein@steinisoft.de
             Open/Closed: Open
                 Release: 6.2.0
         Discussion Lock: Any
        Operating System: Microsoft Windows

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Details:

If I use strcat() in Matlab it don't ignore whitespaces. But in Octave
Whitespaces will be ignored. 

If I use for example the code:


strcat("Hello, ", "how are you?", " ", "Nice weather today!")


In Matlab the result is:

"Hello how are you? Nice weather today!"


And in Octave the result is:

"Hellohow are you?Nice weather today!"


It is correctly documented, that white spaces will be removed in Octave with
strcat(). But if people use Matlab and Octave and need a compatibility it is
not given in that case. In my case I try to generate C++ code with Octave and
Matlab and need a compatibility. In the string handling some points are not
one to one compatiple between Matlab and Octave.

I think that point could be an improvement.






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