From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Thu Feb  5 14:04:14 2004
Subject: Warnings when loading strings stored in MAT5 format
From: Quentin Spencer <qspencer at ieee dot org>
To: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 14:04:50 -0600

This is more an annoyance than a bug, since loading and saving works 
properly for my application. However, when I save string data in a 
MATLAB file, I get warnings about conversion from matrix to string when 
reloading, as shown below (version 2.1.53, Linux):

oct 1> a="test";
oct 2> save temp.mat a
oct 3> clear
oct 4> load temp.mat
warning: implicit conversion from matrix to string
oct 5> a
a = test

I'm currently doing an application where I'm loading files that have 
hundreds of strings in them and I get the warning message repeated for 
each string. If this message is important for anything, it would be nice 
to have a builtin variable to turn the warnings off.

-Quentin



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