From help-request at octave dot org Fri Dec 30 22:42:11 2005
Subject: Re: structures Matlab - Octave
From: Bill Denney <denney at seas dot upenn dot edu>
To: David Bateman <David dot Bateman at motorola dot com>
cc: Michael Schmid <michaelschmid1 at bluewin dot ch>, help@octave.org,         "John W. Eaton" <jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 23:40:29 -0500 (EST)

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, David Bateman wrote:

> This is not a bug... With Matlab R14sp2 I get
>
> a = struct()
>
> a =
>
> 1x1 struct array with no fields.
>
> Which is identical to octave.. The problem is rather that the subsasgn of [] 
> doesn't delete elements of the structure array in a similar manner to the 
> numerical matrix/array classes.

In this case, I think that I introduced a bug into dir.m recently, but we 
should probably check what the matlab return is when there is supposed to 
be empty output.

Bill

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