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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} {} = fem_ffc (myproblem.ufl)
+## This function take as input a .ufl file with a Variationa Problem
+## @example
+## 
+## @end example
+## @seealso{} 
+## @end deftypefn
+
+function fem_ffc (var_prob)
+
+  if nargin != 1
+    error ("fem_ffc: wrong number of input parameters.");
+  elseif ! isstr (var_prob)
+    error ("fem_ffc: first argument is not a valid string");
+  endif
+
+  command = cstrcat ("ffc -l dolfin ", var_prob);
+  [output, text] = system (command);
+  if output != 0
+    display (text);
+    error ("Compilation failed");
+  endif
+
+endfunction
+
+
+