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+## Copyright (C) 2013 Marco Vassallo
+
+## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
+## the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
+## Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
+## version.
+
+## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+## ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+## FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more
+## details.
+
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
+## this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {} = import_ufl_FunctionSpace (myproblem)
+## This function takes as input the name of the .ufl file where 
+## the FunctionSpace is defined and import it inside Octave
+## @seealso{import_ufl_Problem, FunctionSpace, BilinearForm, LinearForm} 
+## @end deftypefn
+
+function import_ufl_FunctionSpace (var_prob)
+
+  if nargin != 1
+    error ("import_ufl_FunctionSpace: wrong number of input parameters.");
+  elseif ! ischar (var_prob)
+    error ("import_ufl_FunctionSpace: first argument is not a valid string");
+  endif
+
+  n = length (mfilename ("fullpath")) - length (mfilename());
+  path = strtrunc(mfilename ("fullpath"), n);
+
+  private = fullfile (path, "private/");
+  output = generate_fs (var_prob);
+  output += generate_makefile (var_prob, private);
+  if output != 0
+    error ("Compilation failed");
+  else
+    [output, textfile] = system (sprintf ("make -f Makefile_%s fs", var_prob));
+    if output != 0
+      display (text);
+      error ("Compilation failed");
+    endif
+    [output, textfile] = system (sprintf ("make -f Makefile_%s clean", var_prob));
+    if output != 0
+      display (text);
+      error ("Compilation failed");
+    endif
+  endif
+
+endfunction