[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #61473] unexpected results from eq

[Markus Mützel]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #61473 (project octave):

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> I am assuming eq and isequal is an cell element by element comparison within
cellfun.  The code I provided is a comparison of one number with another
number at at a time for each cell element.  Comment #1 is invalid. 
>
> eq gave the wrong result. 

Please use savannah's web interface when answering so others can follow as
well.

You are right, the reason given why the result is different is not complete.

The more complete explanation is that `eq([], 0)` results in `[]` but
`isequal([], 0)` results in `false`. When calling `cell2mat` on the cell array
that contains `[]` in some of its elements, the resulting matrix will have
less elements than the input cell array.

For your case, where the input cell array might contain empty elements, you'll
probably want to use `isequal` (not `eq`).


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