You've got utf-8 chars in there. You need to convert to "wide" chars, then you'll get a matrix that behaves itself.
These links may be helpful: http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Guides/Unicode http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Guides/UnicodeGettingStarted On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Rudi Mann <r...@happyplating.eu> wrote: > Hi, > > yesterday I stumbled over the following feature: > > charstring=.'ABCD',CR,LF,'DEÄF',CR,LF,'GÖßI',CR,LF,'ÄÖÜß',CR,LF > > charstring > ABCD > DEÄF > GÖßI > ÄÖÜß > > #charstring > 31 > (How bizarre! I counted 24; 16 letters and 8 control characters!) > > I want to create a 4 by 4 character array from this string in order to > perform operations like transpose, row and column indexing, diagonal > extraction etc. How can I do that? > > Rudi > r...@happyplating.eu > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
