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1 # Copyright (C) 1996 John W. Eaton |
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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 the |
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7 # Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any |
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8 # later version. |
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9 # |
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10 # Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT |
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11 # ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or |
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12 # FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License |
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13 # 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, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. |
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18 |
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19 function s = blanks (n) |
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20 |
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21 # usage: blanks (n) |
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22 # |
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23 # Returns a string of n blanks. |
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24 |
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25 # Original version by Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>. |
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26 |
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27 if (nargin != 1) |
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28 usage ("blanks (n)"); |
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29 endif |
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30 |
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31 if (is_scalar (n) && n > 0 && n == round (n)) |
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32 s = setstr (ones (1, n) * toascii (" ")); |
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33 else |
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34 error ("blanks: n must be a positive integer"); |
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35 endif |
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36 |
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37 endfunction |
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