//=============================================================================
/// <summary>
/// Read a named matrix of string from scilab
/// </summary>
/// <param name="matrixName"> variable name</param>
/// <returns>a matrix of string from scilab. If Variable name does not exist returns null</returns>
public unsafe string[] readNamedMatrixOfString(string matrixName)
{
string[] matrixString = null;
int[] iDim = getNamedVarDimension(matrixName);
if (iDim != null)
{
int iRows = iDim[0];
int iCols = iDim[1];
// we allocate lengthmatrixString
int[] lengthmatrixString = new int[iRows * iCols];
System.IntPtr ptrEmpty = new System.IntPtr();
// we get length of strings
//cEngineDlls.api_Err SciErr = m_objScilabInvoker.readStrMat(ptrEmpty, matrixName, &iRows, &iCols, lengthmatrixString, null);
Scilab_cs_wrapper.api_Err SciErr = Scilab_cs_wrapper.readNamedMatrixOfString(ptrEmpty, matrixName, &iRows, &iCols, lengthmatrixString, null);
// we allocate each string
matrixString = new string[iRows * iCols];
for (int i = 0; i < iRows * iCols; i++)
{
matrixString[i] = new string(' ', lengthmatrixString[i]);
}
// we get strings from scilab
//SciErr = m_objScilabInvoker.readStrMat(ptrEmpty, matrixName, &iRows, &iCols, lengthmatrixString, matrixString);
SciErr = Scilab_cs_wrapper.readNamedMatrixOfString(ptrEmpty, matrixName, &iRows, &iCols, lengthmatrixString, matrixString);
}
return(matrixString);
}
