From help-request at octave dot org Tue Feb 21 13:49:39 2006
Subject: Re: Creating a varargin-like object
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: "Edward C. Jones" <edcjones at comcast dot net>
Cc: miquel dot cabanas at uab dot es, help@octave.org
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 14:49:18 -0500


| >>Suppose I have a collection of strings 'A', 'B', ... What should XXX be in
| >>the following:
| >>     XXX = ?????
| >>     menu('sometext', XXX)
| >>so that the choices in the menu are 'A', 'B', etc. In other words, how do I
| >>create a varargin-like object from scratch?

People have mentioned cellstr for converting from a character matrix
to a cell array of character strings, but there is also the simpler

 c = {'a', 'collection', 'of', 'character', 'strings'};

If you just want to create a cell array of character strings from
scratch, there is no need to create a character matrix first.

jwe



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