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Accessing strings from an array of strings in GNU Octave

How to access the whole elements hello and ahoy in Octave? Only the first character in each string is being printed.

octave:1> s = ["hello";"ahoy"]
s =

hello
ahoy 

octave:2> s(1)
ans = h
octave:3> s(2)
ans = a
Solution

  • Use cell arrays instead.

    octave:1> s = { 'hello'; 'ahoy' };

octave:2> s{1}
ans = hello

octave:3> s{2}
ans = ahoy

    See https://octave.org/doc/v5.2.0/Cell-Arrays.html#Cell-Arrays