# HG changeset patch
# User jwe
# Date 1182363004 0
# Node ID f7fdea19da88c34b954f07b3462dd24db18adb03
# Parent  c7eb2c1495281477168824df0e71238a3682c1e1
[project @ 2007-06-20 18:10:04 by jwe]

diff -r c7eb2c149528 -r f7fdea19da88 scripts/ChangeLog
--- a/scripts/ChangeLog	Wed Jun 20 17:44:35 2007 +0000
+++ b/scripts/ChangeLog	Wed Jun 20 18:10:04 2007 +0000
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2007-06-20  John W. Eaton  <jwe@octave.org>
 
+	* strings/index.m: Allow strings to be empty.
+	From Hartmut Wziontek <hwz@hwz.bv.TU-Berlin.DE>
+
 	* plot/__go_draw_axes__.m (do_tics_1): Fix typo (xtic -> tics).
 
 2007-06-19  Vittoria Rezzonico  <vittoria.rezzonico@epfl.ch>
@@ -330,7 +333,7 @@
 	* set/ismember.m: Always return logical values.
 
 	* set/ismember.m: Return early if no matches are found.  New tests.
-	From: David Grohmann <grohmann@arlut.utexas.edu>.
+	From David Grohmann <grohmann@arlut.utexas.edu>.
 
 	* general/__isequal__.m: Allow numeric values of different classes
 	to compare equal.
diff -r c7eb2c149528 -r f7fdea19da88 scripts/strings/index.m
--- a/scripts/strings/index.m	Wed Jun 20 17:44:35 2007 +0000
+++ b/scripts/strings/index.m	Wed Jun 20 18:10:04 2007 +0000
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
   endif
   direction = lower (direction);
 
-  if (! (ischar (s) && ischar (t) && isvector (s) && isvector (t)))
+  if (! (ischar (s) && ischar (t)))
     error ("index: expecting character string arguments");
   elseif (! strcmp (direction, {"first", "last"}))
     error ("index: direction must be either \"first\" or \"last\"");