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strip trailing whitespace from files
* NEWS, oop.txi, ov.h, dSparse.h, f77-fcn.h, lo-array-gripes.h,
display.m, int2str.m, num2str.m, subsindex.m, fileattrib.m,
parser.tst: Strip trailing whitespace.
author | John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> |
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date | Fri, 15 Jan 2016 12:46:58 -0500 |
parents | a9ed4104ecfd |
children | dba88797f69f |
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## Copyright (C) 2008-2015 David Bateman ## ## This file is part of Octave. ## ## Octave 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 3 of the License, or (at ## your option) any later version. ## ## Octave 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 Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see ## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. ## -*- texinfo -*- ## @deftypefn {} {} display (@var{obj}) ## Display the contents of the object @var{obj}. ## ## The Octave interpreter calls the @code{display} function whenever it needs ## to present a class on-screen. Typically, this would be a statement which ## does not end in a semicolon to suppress output. For example, ## ## @example ## myobj = myclass (@dots{}) ## @end example ## ## User-defined classes should overload the @code{display} method so that ## something useful is printed for a class object. Otherwise, Octave will ## report only that the object is an instance of its class. ## ## @example ## myobj = myclass (@dots{}) ## @result{} myobj = <class myclass> ## @end example ## ## @seealso{class, subsref, subsasgn} ## @end deftypefn function display (obj) if (nargin != 1) print_usage (); endif ## Only reason we got here is that there was no overloaded display function. ## This may mean it is a built-in class. str = disp (obj); if (isempty (strfind (str, "<class "))) disp (str); else error ('display: not defined for class "%s"', class (obj)); endif endfunction