From 4e1c26db7633eb4d371d645581032009ae6dfcb5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?St=C3=A9phane=20Adjemian=20=28Scylla=29?=
 <stephane.adjemian@univ-lemans.fr>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 11:39:52 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Changed dseries' constructor so that the third and fourth
 inputs arguments accept cell of strings *and* character arrays.

=> It is possible to pass M_.endo_names as a third input argument.
---
 doc/dynare.texi           |  4 ++--
 matlab/@dseries/dseries.m | 10 ++++++++--
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/dynare.texi b/doc/dynare.texi
index 9d1d895f5..835284fad 100644
--- a/doc/dynare.texi
+++ b/doc/dynare.texi
@@ -9561,10 +9561,10 @@ A scalar integer, the number of observations.
 A scalar integer, the number of variables.
 
 @item name
-A cell of strings, the names of the variables.
+A @code{nobs}*1 cell of strings or a @code{nobs}*p character array, the names of the variables.
 
 @item tex
- A cell of strings, the tex names of the variables.
+ A @code{nobs}*1 cell of strings or a @code{nobs}*p character array, the tex names of the variables.
 
 @item freq
 A scalar integer equal to 1, 4, 12 or 52, the frequency of the dataset.
diff --git a/matlab/@dseries/dseries.m b/matlab/@dseries/dseries.m
index 7fb9427ef..d1ab474f8 100644
--- a/matlab/@dseries/dseries.m
+++ b/matlab/@dseries/dseries.m
@@ -22,9 +22,9 @@ function ts = dseries(varargin) % --*-- Unitary tests --*--
 %! @item b
 %! Initial date. For Quaterly, Monthly or Weekly data, b must be a string. For yearly data or if the frequence is not defined b must be an integer.
 %! @item c
-%! N*1 cell array of strings. Names of the N time series.
+%! N*1 cell array of strings or N*q array of strings. Names of the N time series.
 %! @item d
-%! N*p array of characters. TeX names of the N time series.
+%! N*1 cell array of strings or N*p array of characters. TeX names of the N time series.
 %! @end table
 %! @sp 2
 %! @strong{Outputs}
@@ -162,11 +162,17 @@ switch nargin
         d = {};
     else
         d = varargin{4};
+        if ~iscell(d)
+            d = cellstr(d);
+        end
     end
     if nargin<3
         c = {};
     else
         c = varargin{3};
+        if ~iscell(c)
+            c = cellstr(c);
+        end
     end
     % Get data, number of observations and number of variables.
     ts.data = a;