# HG changeset patch
# User jwe
# Date 1105559358 0
# Node ID c891dd97b837fd681ff6b7c8991dfd665f5685bd
# Parent  0a048f33a545a30770b5c3539484e518417990fc
[project @ 2005-01-12 19:49:18 by jwe]

diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2005-01-12  John W. Eaton  <jwe@octave.org>
+
+	* DLD-FUNCTIONS/find.cc (Ffind): Make it work for character strings.
+
 2005-01-11  John W. Eaton  <jwe@octave.org>
 
 	* DLD-FUNCTIONS/gplot.l (UNOP): Avoid trailing comment.
diff --git a/src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/find.cc b/src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/find.cc
--- a/src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/find.cc
+++ b/src/DLD-FUNCTIONS/find.cc
@@ -199,6 +199,13 @@
       if (! error_state)
 	retval = find_nonzero_elem_idx (cnda, nargout);
     }
+  else if (arg.is_string ())
+    {
+      charNDArray cnda = arg.char_array_value ();
+
+      if (! error_state)
+	retval = find_nonzero_elem_idx (cnda, nargout);
+    }
   else
     {
       gripe_wrong_type_arg ("find", arg);