From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Wed Aug  9 08:04:31 1995
Subject: Newbie questions -- Weird Problem
From: pot at fly dot CNUCE dot CNR dot IT (Francesco Potorti`)
To: help-octave at che dot utexas dot edu
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 1995 15:04 +0100 (MET)

	Octave:1> aa=['foo';'bar']
	aa = 102 111 111
	     98  97  114

   Strings are converted to ASCII values.

On alpha, instead I get:

	Octave:1> aa=["foo", "bar"]
	aa = foobar
	Octave:2> aa=["foo"; "bar"]
	error: invalid conversion from string to real matrix
	error: evaluating assignment expression near line 20, column 3
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