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1 ## Copyright (C) 2000 Etienne Grossman
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2 ##
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3 ## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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4 ## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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5 ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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6 ## (at your option) any later version.
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7 ##
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8 ## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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9 ## but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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10 ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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11 ## GNU General Public License for more details.
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12 ##
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13 ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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14 ## along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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15 ## Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
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17 ## s = setfield(s,'key1',value1,...)
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18 ##
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19 ## Sets s.key1 = value1, s.key2 = value2, ... and returns s.
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20 ##
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21 ## For m****b compatibility and flexibility.
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22 ##
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23 ## See also cmpstruct, fields, rmfield, isstruct, getfield, isfield,
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24 ## struct.
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25 ##
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27 ## Author: Etienne Grossmann <etienne@isr.ist.utl.pt>
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28 ## Last modified: January 2000
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29 ## November 2000: Paul Kienzle <pkienzle@kienzle.powernet.co.uk>
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30 ## return error rather than trapping to keyboard
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32 function s = setfield(s,...)
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33 va_start() ;
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34 nargin-- ;
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35 while nargin-- ,
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36 tmp = va_arg() ;
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37 if ! isstr(tmp) ,
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38 error('setfield: called with non-string key') ;
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39 else
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40 if ! nargin-- ,
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41 error('setfield: called with odd number of arguments\n') ;
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42 else
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43 value = va_arg() ;
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44 eval( ['s.',tmp,'=value;'] ) ;
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45 end
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46 end
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47 end