From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Fri Dec 15 19:23:27 2000
Subject: index.m doesn't handle empty strings
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Teemu Ikonen <tpikonen at pcu dot helsinki dot fi>
Cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 19:23:20 -0600

On 11-Aug-2000, Teemu Ikonen <tpikonen at pcu dot helsinki dot fi> wrote:

| Current version of string function index returns
|       error ("index: arguments cannot be string arrays");
| when given empty string as an argument. The correct behavior would be
| (IMHO) to return 0. Patch correcting this is included.

Sorry for the long delay.

I made this change in the CVS sources.

Thanks,

jwe

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