A.1.4 Cell Arrays in Oct-Files

Octave's cell type is equally accessible within oct-files. A cell array is just an array of octave_values, and so each element of the cell array can then be treated just like any other octave_value. A simple example is

Note that cell arrays are used less often in standard oct-files and so the ‘Cell.h’ header file must be explicitly included. The rest of this example extracts the octave_values one by one from the cell array and returns be as individual return arguments. For example consider

[b1, b2, b3] = celldemo ({1, [1, 2], "test"})
⇒
b1 =  1
b2 =

   1   2

b3 = test