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Use matrix concatenation for strings, rather than cstrcat(), for clarity and performance. matrix concatenation is ~80% faster than cstrcat(). * doc/interpreter/strings.txi: Document preference for matrix concatenation as opposed to alternatives. * doc/interpreter/geometryimages.m, doc/interpreter/interpimages.m, doc/interpreter/plotimages.m, doc/interpreter/sparseimages.m, doc/interpreter/splineimages.m, scripts/general/genvarname.m, scripts/general/int2str.m, scripts/general/num2str.m, scripts/help/__makeinfo__.m, scripts/help/help.m, scripts/miscellaneous/copyfile.m, scripts/miscellaneous/dir.m, scripts/miscellaneous/edit.m, scripts/miscellaneous/fact.m, scripts/miscellaneous/fullfile.m, scripts/miscellaneous/mkoctfile.m, scripts/miscellaneous/movefile.m, scripts/miscellaneous/perl.m, scripts/miscellaneous/python.m, scripts/miscellaneous/run.m, scripts/miscellaneous/tempdir.m, scripts/miscellaneous/unpack.m, scripts/pkg/private/configure_make.m, scripts/pkg/private/create_pkgadddel.m, scripts/pkg/private/extract_pkg.m, scripts/pkg/private/get_description.m, scripts/pkg/private/get_forge_pkg.m, scripts/pkg/private/getarch.m, scripts/pkg/private/getarchprefix.m, scripts/pkg/private/install.m, scripts/pkg/private/installed_packages.m, scripts/pkg/private/load_packages_and_dependencies.m, scripts/pkg/private/rebuild.m, scripts/pkg/private/repackage.m, scripts/pkg/private/shell.m, scripts/pkg/private/uninstall.m, scripts/plot/private/__go_draw_axes__.m, scripts/signal/spectral_adf.m, scripts/signal/spectral_xdf.m, scripts/statistics/tests/z_test.m, scripts/statistics/tests/z_test_2.m, scripts/strings/mat2str.m, scripts/strings/strtok.m, scripts/testfun/__run_test_suite__.m, scripts/testfun/assert.m, scripts/testfun/demo.m, scripts/testfun/speed.m, scripts/testfun/test.m, test/eval-catch.tst, test/io.tst, test/try.tst: Replace cstrcat() with matrix concatenation where possible.
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1 ## Copyright (C) 2008-2012 Julian Schnidder
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2 ##
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3 ## This file is part of Octave.
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4 ##
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5 ## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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6 ## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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7 ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
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8 ## your option) any later version.
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9 ##
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10 ## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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11 ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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12 ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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13 ## General Public License for more details.
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14 ##
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15 ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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16 ## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see
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17 ## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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19 ## -*- texinfo -*-
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20 ## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{output} =} perl (@var{scriptfile})
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21 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{output} =} perl (@var{scriptfile}, @var{argument1}, @var{argument2}, @dots{})
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22 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {[@var{output}, @var{status}] =} perl (@dots{})
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23 ## Invoke Perl script @var{scriptfile}, possibly with a list of command line
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24 ## arguments. Return output in @var{output} and optional status in
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25 ## @var{status}. If @var{scriptfile} is not an absolute file name it is
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26 ## is searched for in the current directory and then in the Octave loadpath.
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27 ## @seealso{system, python}
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28 ## @end deftypefn
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30 function [output, status] = perl (scriptfile = "-e ''", varargin)
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32 ## VARARGIN is intialized to {}(1x0) if no additional arguments are
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33 ## supplied, so there is no need to check for it, or provide an
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34 ## initial value in the argument list of the function definition.
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36 if (ischar (scriptfile)
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37 && ( (nargin == 1 && ! isempty (scriptfile))
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38 || (nargin != 1 && iscellstr (varargin))))
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39 if (! strcmp (scriptfile(1:2), "-e"))
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40 ## Attempt to find file in loadpath. No effect for absolute filenames.
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41 scriptfile = file_in_loadpath (scriptfile);
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42 endif
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44 [status, output] = system (["perl " scriptfile ...
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45 sprintf(" %s", varargin{:})]);
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46 else
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47 error ("perl: invalid arguments");
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48 endif
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50 endfunction