--- a/liboctave/Array.cc	Thu Feb 05 19:58:57 2004 +0000
+++ b/liboctave/Array.cc	Thu Feb 05 21:57:51 2004 +0000
@@ -1468,6 +1468,17 @@
       // We have colons in all indices except for one.
       // This index tells us which slice to delete
 
+      if (n_idx < lhs_dims.length ())
+	{
+	  for (int i = n_idx; i < lhs_dims.length (); i++)
+	    lhs_dims(n_idx-1) *= lhs_dims(i);
+
+	  lhs_dims.resize (n_idx);
+
+	  // Reshape *this.
+	  dimensions = lhs_dims;
+	}
+
       int non_col = 0;
 
       // Find the non-colon column.
@@ -1543,12 +1554,6 @@
 
 		  Array<int> result_idx (lhs_dims.length (), 0);
 
-		  dim_vector lhs_inc;
-		  lhs_inc.resize (lhs_dims.length ());
-
-		  for (int i = 0; i < lhs_dims.length (); i++)
-		    lhs_inc(i) = lhs_dims(i) + 1;
-
 		  dim_vector new_lhs_dim = lhs_dims;
 
 		  new_lhs_dim(non_col) = new_dim;
@@ -2851,17 +2856,11 @@
 	  for (int i = 0; i < rhs_dims.length (); i++)
 	    frozen_rhs(i) = rhs_dims(i);
 
-	  dim_vector lhs_inc;
-	  lhs_inc.resize (lhs_dims.length ());
-
-	  for (int i = 0; i < lhs_dims.length (); i++)
-	    lhs_inc(i) = lhs_dims(i) + 1;
-
 	  for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
 	    {
 	      elt_idx = get_elt_idx (idx, result_idx);
 
-	      if (index_in_bounds (elt_idx, lhs_inc))
+	      if (index_in_bounds (elt_idx, lhs_dims))
 		{
 		  int s = compute_index (result_rhs_idx, rhs_dims);
 

--- a/liboctave/ChangeLog	Thu Feb 05 19:58:57 2004 +0000
+++ b/liboctave/ChangeLog	Thu Feb 05 21:57:51 2004 +0000
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 2004-02-05  Petter Risholm  <risholm@stud.ntnu.no>
 
+	* Array.cc (Array<T>::maybe_delete_elements): Reshape LHS
+	when number of indices is less than number of dimensions.
+
+	* Array.cc (Array<T>::assignN, Array<T>::maybe_delete_elements):
+	Remove unsued variable lhs_inc.
+
 	* Array.cc (Array<T>::maybe_delete_elements): Declare idx_is_colon
 	and idx_is_colon_equiv Array<int> instead of dim_vector.
 

--- a/src/ChangeLog	Thu Feb 05 19:58:57 2004 +0000
+++ b/src/ChangeLog	Thu Feb 05 21:57:51 2004 +0000
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 2004-02-05  John W. Eaton  <jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
 
+	* data.cc (Fsize): Update for N-d objects.
+
+	* ls-mat5.cc (read_mat5_binary_element): Force conversion.
+
+	* ov-base.cc (octave_base_value::char_matrix_value):
+	Pass force arg to convert_to_str.
+
 	* data.cc (Freshape): Chop trailing singletons from new dimensions.
 
 2004-02-03  John W. Eaton  <jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu>

--- a/src/data.cc	Thu Feb 05 19:58:57 2004 +0000
+++ b/src/data.cc	Thu Feb 05 21:57:51 2004 +0000
@@ -792,9 +792,9 @@
 Return the number rows and columns of @var{a}.\n\
 \n\
 With one input argument and one output argument, the result is returned\n\
-in a 2 element row vector.  If there are two output arguments, the\n\
-number of rows is assigned to the first, and the number of columns to\n\
-the second.  For example,\n\
+in a row vector.  If there are multiple output arguments, the number of\n\
+rows is assigned to the first, and the number of columns to the second,\n\
+etc.  For example,\n\
 \n\
 @example\n\
 @group\n\
@@ -807,8 +807,8 @@
 @end group\n\
 @end example\n\
 \n\
-If given a second argument of either 1 or 2, @code{size} will return\n\
-only the row or column dimension.  For example\n\
+If given a second argument, @code{size} will return the size of the\n\
+corresponding dimension.  For example\n\
 \n\
 @example\n\
 size ([1, 2; 3, 4; 5, 6], 2)\n\
@@ -852,12 +852,12 @@
 	error ("size: expecting scalar as second argument");
       else
 	{
-	  if (nd == 1)
-	    retval(0) = args(0).rows ();
-	  else if (nd == 2)
-	    retval(0) = args(0).columns ();
+	  dim_vector dv = args(0).dims ();
+
+	  if (nd > 0 && nd <= dv.length ())
+	    retval(0) = dv(nd-1);
 	  else
-	    error ("size: invalid second argument -- expecting 1 or 2");
+	    error ("size: requested dimension (= %d) out of range", nd);
 	}
     }
   else

--- a/src/ls-mat5.cc	Thu Feb 05 19:58:57 2004 +0000
+++ b/src/ls-mat5.cc	Thu Feb 05 21:57:51 2004 +0000
@@ -508,7 +508,7 @@
 	tc = re;
 
       if (arrayclass == mxCHAR_CLASS)
-	tc = tc.convert_to_str ();
+	tc = tc.convert_to_str (false, true);
     }
 
   is.seekg (pos + static_cast<std::streamoff> (element_length));

--- a/src/ov-base.cc	Thu Feb 05 19:58:57 2004 +0000
+++ b/src/ov-base.cc	Thu Feb 05 21:57:51 2004 +0000
@@ -388,11 +388,11 @@
 }
 
 charMatrix
-octave_base_value::char_matrix_value (bool) const
+octave_base_value::char_matrix_value (bool force) const
 {
   charMatrix retval;
 
-  octave_value tmp = convert_to_str ();
+  octave_value tmp = convert_to_str (false, force);
 
   if (! error_state)
     retval = tmp.char_matrix_value ();

--- a/src/ov-base.h	Thu Feb 05 19:58:57 2004 +0000
+++ b/src/ov-base.h	Thu Feb 05 21:57:51 2004 +0000
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@
 
   boolNDArray bool_array_value (void) const;
 
-  charMatrix char_matrix_value (bool = false) const;
+  charMatrix char_matrix_value (bool force = false) const;
 
   charNDArray char_array_value (bool = false) const;