From bug-octave-request  Wed Aug 11 11:02:34 1993
Subject: string operation
From: A. Scottedward Hodel <Dr dot A dot Scottedward dot Hodel at eng dot auburn dot edu>
To: bug-octave
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 93 11:02:26 CDT

The following m-file results in an error:
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a = 'hello'
if(a == 'hello')
  disp(' this worked')
endif
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The output is:
octave:1> jnk
error: failed to convert `hello' to a numeric type -- default conversion turned
off

a = hello