Emission of empty strings.

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Emission of an empty string, e.g. info: ''

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expected: '' (empty string)
Actual: [] (empty list)

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
0.4.3 running on Windows 7

Please provide any additional information below.
Suggested solution:
function result = scan_char(r)
  if isempty(r)
    result = java.lang.String(); % result = java.util.ArrayList();
  else
    result = java.lang.String(r);
  end
end

Original issue reported on code.google.com by reinhard...@gmail.com on 12 Dec 2013 at 3:45