# HG changeset patch
# User jwe
# Date 1115831508 0
# Node ID b3ba123faec841d7074dedf9e6ad906779cbfa6b
# Parent  679cc8fec4086647c07bf8aef5c9086f611ec0eb
[project @ 2005-05-11 17:11:48 by jwe]

diff --git a/scripts/ChangeLog b/scripts/ChangeLog
--- a/scripts/ChangeLog
+++ b/scripts/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2005-05-11  John W. Eaton  <jwe@octave.org>
 
+	* strings/findstr.m: Allow non-string arguments for compatiblity.
+	From Tom Holroyd <tomh@kurage.nimh.nih.gov>.
+
 	* plot/polar.m: Don't call __pltopt__ here.
 
 2005-05-02  John W. Eaton  <jwe@octave.org>
diff --git a/scripts/strings/findstr.m b/scripts/strings/findstr.m
--- a/scripts/strings/findstr.m
+++ b/scripts/strings/findstr.m
@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@
     usage ("findstr (s, t, overlap)");
   endif
 
-  if (! isstr (s) || ! isstr (t) || all (size (s) > 1) || all (size (t) > 1))
-    error ("findstr: expecting first two arguments to be strings");
+  if (all (size (s) > 1) || all (size (t) > 1))
+    error ("findstr: arguments must have only one non-singleton dimension");
   endif
 
   if (nargin == 2)