Re: Display of strings by interpreter

[John W. Eaton]

On 10/23/19 11:58 AM, Rik wrote:

> Continuing with the theme of how results are displayed in Octave, should we
> move to displaying char arrays and strings with enclosing single or double
> quotes?  This is how Matlab behaves, and I think it may be useful to
> understanding when there are trailing spaces or null characters.
>
> Current behavior with Octave
>
> octave:1> "Hello World"
> ans = Hello World
>
> Current behavior with Matlab
>
> "Hello World"
> ans = "Hello World"
>
> 'Hello World    '
> ans = 'Hello World     '
> strtrim (ans)
> ans = 'Hello World'
>
> This feature has been requested at
> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?56973.

Yes, this seems like a good thing to do.  Also the feature request in 
#56974.  I would even say that we could consider displaying the type if 
it is double.

Did you want to work on either of these?

jwe