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doc: Update more docstrings to have one sentence summary as first line. Reviewed miscellaneous, sparse, strings in scripts directory. * scripts/miscellaneous/bzip2.m, scripts/miscellaneous/citation.m, scripts/miscellaneous/compare_versions.m, scripts/miscellaneous/computer.m, scripts/miscellaneous/debug.m, scripts/miscellaneous/dir.m, scripts/miscellaneous/edit.m, scripts/miscellaneous/error_ids.m, scripts/miscellaneous/fileattrib.m, scripts/miscellaneous/fullfile.m, scripts/miscellaneous/genvarname.m, scripts/miscellaneous/gzip.m, scripts/miscellaneous/mkoctfile.m, scripts/miscellaneous/news.m, scripts/miscellaneous/open.m, scripts/miscellaneous/parseparams.m, scripts/miscellaneous/recycle.m, scripts/miscellaneous/run.m, scripts/miscellaneous/swapbytes.m, scripts/miscellaneous/tar.m, scripts/miscellaneous/tmpnam.m, scripts/miscellaneous/unpack.m, scripts/miscellaneous/what.m, scripts/sparse/bicg.m, scripts/sparse/bicgstab.m, scripts/sparse/cgs.m, scripts/sparse/colperm.m, scripts/sparse/eigs.m, scripts/sparse/etreeplot.m, scripts/sparse/gmres.m, scripts/sparse/gplot.m, scripts/sparse/ichol.m, scripts/sparse/ilu.m, scripts/sparse/pcg.m, scripts/sparse/pcr.m, scripts/sparse/qmr.m, scripts/sparse/spaugment.m, scripts/sparse/spconvert.m, scripts/sparse/spdiags.m, scripts/sparse/spfun.m, scripts/sparse/spones.m, scripts/sparse/sprandsym.m, scripts/sparse/spstats.m, scripts/sparse/spy.m, scripts/sparse/svds.m, scripts/sparse/treelayout.m, scripts/sparse/treeplot.m, scripts/strings/base2dec.m, scripts/strings/bin2dec.m, scripts/strings/blanks.m, scripts/strings/cstrcat.m, scripts/strings/deblank.m, scripts/strings/dec2base.m, scripts/strings/dec2bin.m, scripts/strings/dec2hex.m, scripts/strings/findstr.m, scripts/strings/hex2dec.m, scripts/strings/index.m, scripts/strings/isletter.m, scripts/strings/isstrprop.m, scripts/strings/mat2str.m, scripts/strings/ostrsplit.m, scripts/strings/regexptranslate.m, scripts/strings/rindex.m, scripts/strings/str2num.m, scripts/strings/strcat.m, scripts/strings/strchr.m, scripts/strings/strjoin.m, scripts/strings/strjust.m, scripts/strings/strmatch.m, scripts/strings/strsplit.m, scripts/strings/strtok.m, scripts/strings/strtrim.m, scripts/strings/strtrunc.m, scripts/strings/substr.m, scripts/strings/untabify.m, scripts/time/datenum.m: Update more docstrings to have one sentence summary as first line.
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1 ## Copyright (C) 1996-2015 Kurt Hornik
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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} {} substr (@var{s}, @var{offset})
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21 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} substr (@var{s}, @var{offset}, @var{len})
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22 ## Return the substring of @var{s} which starts at character number
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23 ## @var{offset} and is @var{len} characters long.
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24 ##
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25 ## Position numbering for offsets begins with 1. If @var{offset} is negative,
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26 ## extraction starts that far from the end of the string.
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27 ##
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28 ## If @var{len} is omitted, the substring extends to the end of @var{s}. A
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29 ## negative value for @var{len} extracts to within @var{len} characters of
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30 ## the end of the string
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31 ##
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32 ## Examples:
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33 ##
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34 ## @example
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35 ## @group
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36 ## substr ("This is a test string", 6, 9)
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37 ## @result{} "is a test"
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38 ## substr ("This is a test string", -11)
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39 ## @result{} "test string"
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40 ## substr ("This is a test string", -11, -7)
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41 ## @result{} "test"
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42 ## @end group
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43 ## @end example
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44 ##
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45 ## This function is patterned after the equivalent function in Perl.
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46 ## @end deftypefn
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48 ## Author: Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at>
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49 ## Adapted-By: jwe
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51 function t = substr (s, offset, len)
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53 if (nargin < 2 || nargin > 3)
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54 print_usage ();
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55 endif
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57 if (! ischar (s))
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58 error ("substr: S must be a string or string array");
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59 elseif (! isscalar (offset) || (nargin == 3 && ! isscalar (len)))
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60 error ("substr: OFFSET and LEN must be scalar integers");
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61 endif
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63 offset = fix (offset);
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64 nc = columns (s);
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65 if (abs (offset) > nc || offset == 0)
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66 error ("substr: OFFSET = %d out of range", offset);
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67 endif
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69 if (offset <= 0)
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70 offset += nc + 1;
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71 endif
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73 if (nargin == 2)
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74 eos = nc;
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75 else
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76 len = fix (len);
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77 if (len < 0)
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78 eos = nc + len;
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79 else
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80 eos = offset + len - 1;
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81 endif
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82 endif
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84 if (eos > nc)
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85 error ("substr: length LEN = %d out of range", len);
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86 elseif (offset > eos && len != 0)
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87 error ("substr: No overlap with chosen values of OFFSET and LEN");
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88 endif
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90 t = s(:, offset:eos);
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95 %!assert (substr ("This is a test string", 6, 9), "is a test")
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96 %!assert (substr ("This is a test string", -11), "test string")
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97 %!assert (substr ("This is a test string", -11, 4), "test")
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98 %!assert (substr ("This is a test string", -11, -7), "test")
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99 %!assert (substr ("This is a test string", 1, -7), "This is a test")
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100 %!assert (isempty (substr ("This is a test string", 1, 0)))
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102 ## Test input validation
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103 %!error substr ()
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104 %!error substr ("foo", 2, 3, 4)
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105 %!error substr (ones (5, 1), 1, 1)
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106 %!error substr ("foo", ones (2,2))
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107 %!error substr ("foo", 1, ones (2,2))
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108 %!error substr ("foo", 0)
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109 %!error substr ("foo", 5)
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110 %!error substr ("foo", 1, 5)
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111 %!error substr ("foo", -1, 5)
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112 %!error substr ("foo", 2, -5)
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