# HG changeset patch
# User John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
# Date 1455826236 18000
# Node ID e0523c40a80281bd1ef48c50459180c4bd921936
# Parent  29a0e9e7087962dacb43100cf229dadfbee97e12# Parent  596e19e7e5717100c9f30a5631031043df3a82ac
maint: Merge stable to default.

diff -r 29a0e9e70879 -r e0523c40a802 libinterp/corefcn/oct-stream.cc
--- a/libinterp/corefcn/oct-stream.cc	Thu Feb 18 11:57:24 2016 -0500
+++ b/libinterp/corefcn/oct-stream.cc	Thu Feb 18 15:10:36 2016 -0500
@@ -2256,7 +2256,10 @@
             {
               if (curr_val.is_string ())
                 {
-                  std::string sval = curr_val.string_value ();
+                  dim_vector dv (1, curr_val.numel ());
+                  octave_value tmp = curr_val.reshape (dv);
+
+                  std::string sval = tmp.string_value ();
 
                   retval = sval.substr (elt_idx);
 
diff -r 29a0e9e70879 -r e0523c40a802 test/io.tst
--- a/test/io.tst	Thu Feb 18 11:57:24 2016 -0500
+++ b/test/io.tst	Thu Feb 18 15:10:36 2016 -0500
@@ -673,3 +673,7 @@
 %!assert (sprintf ("|%X|", "Octave"), "|4F||63||74||61||76||65|");
 %!assert (sprintf ("|%o|", "Octave"), "|117||143||164||141||166||145|");
 
+## bug #47192
+%!assert (sprintf ("%s", repmat ("blah", 2, 1)), "bbllaahh")
+%!assert (sprintf ("%c", repmat ("blah", 2, 1)), "bbllaahh")
+%!assert (sprintf ("%c %c %s", repmat ("blah", 2, 1)), "b b llaahh")