Re: 'strcat' is broken (spaces are ignored) in octave-3.6.2 ?

[Sergei Steshenko]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Ben Abbott <address@hidden>
> To: Carnë Draug <address@hidden>
> Cc: Sergei Steshenko <address@hidden>; octave help mailing list 
> <address@hidden>
> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2012 8:58 PM
> Subject: Re: 'strcat' is broken (spaces are ignored) in octave-3.6.2 ?
> 

> 
> Admittedly this is a ambiguous.
> 
> How about -> "Trailing white space of each input is eliminated."
> 
> If acceptable, I can push a changetset.
> 
> Ben
>

I don't find it acceptable, but maybe I misunderstand English, specifically, 
"of each input".

My understanding is like this. Suppose we have:

strcat("foo ", " ", "bar")
.

Space inside "foo " is the whitespace "of each input".

Regarding " " - I don't know. You guys insist the whitespaces are trailing, I 
insist they are leading.

Here is another example:

"
octave:5> strcat("foo ", "  ", "bar")
ans = foobar
"

- the "  " part is _two_ spaces, so I insist on my fair share of at least one 
leading whitespace.

If you guys insist on present behavior, document the case of whitespaces only 
explicitly.

Regards,
  Sergei.