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+## Copyright (C) 2000-2013 Paul Kienzle
+## Copyright (C) 2003 Alois Schloegl
+## Copyright (C) 2010 VZLU Prague
+##
+## 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  {Function File} {} strmatch (@var{s}, @var{A})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} strmatch (@var{s}, @var{A}, "exact")
+## Return indices of entries of @var{A} which begin with the string @var{s}.
+## The second argument @var{A} must be a string, character matrix, or a cell
+## array of strings.  If the third argument @qcode{"exact"} is not given, then
+## @var{s} only needs to match @var{A} up to the length of @var{s}.
+## Trailing spaces and nulls in @var{s} and @var{A} are ignored when matching.
+##
+## For example:
+##
+## @example
+## @group
+## strmatch ("apple", "apple juice")
+##      @result{} 1
+##
+## strmatch ("apple", ["apple  "; "apple juice"; "an apple"])
+##      @result{} [1; 2]
+##
+## strmatch ("apple", ["apple  "; "apple juice"; "an apple"], "exact")
+##      @result{} [1]
+## @end group
+## @end example
+##
+## @strong{Caution:} @code{strmatch} is scheduled for deprecation.  Use
+## @code{strncmp} (normal case), or @code{strcmp} (@qcode{"exact"} case), or
+## @code{regexp} in all new code.
+## @seealso{strfind, findstr, strcmp, strncmp, strcmpi, strncmpi, find}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Author: Paul Kienzle, Alois Schloegl
+## Adapted-by: jwe
+
+function idx = strmatch (s, A, exact)
+
+  if (nargin < 2 || nargin > 3)
+    print_usage ();
+  endif
+
+  if (! ischar (s) || (! isempty (s) && ! isvector (s)))
+    error ("strmatch: S must be a string");
+  elseif (! (ischar (A) || iscellstr (A)))
+    error ("strmatch: A must be a string or cell array of strings");
+  endif
+
+  ## Trim blanks and nulls from search string
+  s = regexprep (s, "[ \\0]+$", '');
+  len = length (s);
+
+  exact = nargin == 3 && ischar (exact) && strcmp (exact, "exact");
+
+  if (ischar (A))
+    [nr, nc] = size (A);
+    if (len > nc)
+      idx = [];
+    else
+      match = all (bsxfun (@eq, A(:,1:len), s), 2);
+      if (exact)
+        AA = A(:,len+1:nc);
+        match &= all (AA == " " | AA == "\0", 2);
+      endif
+      idx = find (match);
+    endif
+  else
+    if (len > 0)
+      idx = find (strncmp (s, A, len));
+    else
+      idx = find (strcmp (s, A));
+    endif
+    if (exact)
+      ## We can't just use strcmp, because we need to ignore spaces at end.
+      B = regexprep (A(idx), "[ \\0]+$", '');
+      idx = idx(strcmp (s, B));
+    endif
+  endif
+
+endfunction
+
+
+%!assert (strmatch ("a", {"aaa", "bab", "bbb"}), 1)
+%!assert (strmatch ("apple", "apple juice"), 1)
+%!assert (strmatch ("apple", ["apple pie"; "apple juice"; "an apple"]), [1; 2])
+%!assert (strmatch ("apple", {"apple pie"; "apple juice"; "tomato"}), [1; 2])
+%!assert (strmatch ("apple pie", "apple"), [])
+%!assert (strmatch ("a ", "a"), 1)
+%!assert (strmatch ("a", "a \0", "exact"), 1)
+%!assert (strmatch ("a b", {"a b", "a c", "c d"}), 1)
+%!assert (strmatch ("", {"", "foo", "bar", ""}), [1, 4])
+%!assert (strmatch ('', { '', '% comment', 'var a = 5', ''}, 'exact'), [1,4])
+
+%% Test input validation
+%!error <Invalid call to strmatch> strmatch ()
+%!error <Invalid call to strmatch> strmatch ("a")
+%!error <Invalid call to strmatch> strmatch ("a", "aaa", "exact", 1)
+%!error <S must be a string> strmatch (1, "aaa")
+%!error <S must be a string> strmatch (char ("a", "bb"), "aaa")
+%!error <A must be a string> strmatch ("a", 1)
+%!error <A must be a string> strmatch ("a", {"hello", [1]})
+