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<h2 class="chapter">6 Data Containers</h2>
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Octave includes support for two different mechanisms to contain
arbitrary data types in the same variable. Structures, which are C-like,
and are indexed with named fields, and cell arrays, where each element
of the array can have a different data type and or shape. Multiple
input arguments and return values of functions are organized as
another data container, the comma separated list.
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