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1 ## Copyright (C) 2006 William Poetra Yoga Hadisoeseno
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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 2, or (at your option)
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8 ## any later version.
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9 ##
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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, write to the Free
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17 ## Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
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18 ## 02110-1301, USA.
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20 ## -*- texinfo -*-
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21 ## @deftypefn {Function File} {} strtrunc (@var{s}, @var{n})
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22 ## Truncate the character string @var{s} to length @var{n}. If @var{s}
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23 ## is a char matrix, then the number of columns are adjusted.
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24 ##
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25 ## If @var{s} is a cell array of strings, then the operation is performed
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26 ## on its members and the new cell array is returned.
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27 ## @end deftypefn
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29 function s = strtrunc (s, n)
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31 if (nargin != 2)
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32 print_usage ();
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33 endif
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35 if (ischar (s))
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36 s_was_char = true;
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37 s = {s};
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38 else
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39 s_was_char = false;
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40 endif
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41
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42 if (iscellstr (s))
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43 for i = 1:(numel (s))
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44 s{i} = s{i}(:,1:(min (n, columns (s{i}))));
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45 endfor
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46 else
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47 error ("strtrunc: s must be a character string or a cell array of strings");
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48 endif
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50 if (s_was_char)
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51 s = s{:};
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52 endif
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53
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54 endfunction