# HG changeset patch
# User Philip Nienhuis <prnienhuis@@users.sf.net>
# Date 1312900930 25200
# Node ID 3509cf60d1f690444f418fa30ab590376dd35668
# Parent  9f2679a1436686171d1facd918acf83d0347c31d
strread.m: %Ns conversion format now honors user specified width (Bug #33950).

* strread.m: Fix typo in code which fixed width at 3, regardless of user input.

diff --git a/scripts/io/strread.m b/scripts/io/strread.m
--- a/scripts/io/strread.m
+++ b/scripts/io/strread.m
@@ -471,7 +471,7 @@
         endif
       endfor
       ## Done
-      words_period = iwrd - 1;
+      words_period = max (iwrd - 1, 1);
       num_lines = ceil (num_words / words_period);
 
       ## 2. Pad words array so that it can be reshaped
@@ -633,7 +633,7 @@
               if (pad_out)
                 data(end+1:num_lines) = {""}
               endif
-              varargout{k} = strtrunc (data, 3)';
+              varargout{k} = strtrunc (data, swidth)';
               k++;
             otherwise
           endswitch