Index: /issm/trunk/src/m/utils/Array/any2str.m
===================================================================
--- /issm/trunk/src/m/utils/Array/any2str.m	(revision 7130)
+++ /issm/trunk/src/m/utils/Array/any2str.m	(revision 7131)
@@ -2,16 +2,20 @@
 %  function to convert anything to a string
 %
-%  function [svec]=any2str(a)
+%  function [svec]=any2str(a,alim)
 %
-function [svec]=any2str(a)
+function [svec]=any2str(a,alim)
 
-if iscell(a)
-    svec=string_cell(a);
+if ~exist('alim','var') || (numel(a) <= alim)
+    if iscell(a)
+        svec=string_cell(a);
+    else
+        if (numel(a) > 1) && ~ischar(a)
+            svec=string_vec(a);
+        else
+            svec=item2str(a);
+        end
+    end
 else
-    if (numel(a) > 1) && ~ischar(a)
-        svec=string_vec(a);
-    else
-        svec=item2str(a);
-    end
+	svec=[string_size(a) ' ''' class(a) ''''];
 end
 
Index: /issm/trunk/src/m/utils/Array/find_string.m
===================================================================
--- /issm/trunk/src/m/utils/Array/find_string.m	(revision 7130)
+++ /issm/trunk/src/m/utils/Array/find_string.m	(revision 7131)
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 %
 %  function to find a string in a cell array
-%  (actually pretty close to matlab strmatch)
+%  (could probably be replaced by matlab strmatch)
 %  
 %  [ifound]=find_string(cells,str)
Index: /issm/trunk/src/m/utils/Array/string_cell.m
===================================================================
--- /issm/trunk/src/m/utils/Array/string_cell.m	(revision 7130)
+++ /issm/trunk/src/m/utils/Array/string_cell.m	(revision 7131)
@@ -7,5 +7,5 @@
 
 if ~nargin
-    help string_vec
+    help string_cell
     return
 end