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1 ## Copyright (C) 2008 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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18 |
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19 ## -*- texinfo -*- |
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20 ## @deftypefn {Function File} {[@var{output}, @var{status}] =} perl (@var{scriptfile}) |
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21 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {[@var{output}, @var{status}] =} perl (@var{scriptfile}, @var{argument1}, @var{argument2}, ...) |
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22 ## Invoke perl script @var{scriptfile} with possibly a list of |
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23 ## command line arguments. |
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24 ## Returns output in @var{output} and status |
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25 ## in @var{status}. |
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26 ## @seealso{system} |
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27 ## @end deftypefn |
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28 |
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29 function [output, status] = perl (script = "-e ''", varargin = {}) |
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30 |
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31 if (ischar (script) |
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32 && ((nargin != 1 && iscellstr (varargin)) |
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33 || (nargin == 1 && ! isempty (script)))) |
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34 [status, output] = system (cstrcat ("perl ", script, |
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35 sprintf (" %s", varargin{:}))); |
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36 else |
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37 error ("perl: invalid arguments"); |
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38 endif |
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39 |
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40 endfunction |
