## Copyright (C) 2006-2011 William Poetra Yoga Hadisoeseno
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} strtrunc (@var{s}, @var{n})
## Truncate the character string @var{s} to length @var{n}.  If @var{s}
## is a char matrix, then the number of columns is adjusted.
##
## If @var{s} is a cell array of strings, then the operation is performed
## on its members and the new cell array is returned.
## @end deftypefn

function s = strtrunc (s, n)

  if (nargin != 2)
    print_usage ();
  endif

  if (ischar (s))
    if (n < columns (s))
      s = s(:, 1:n);
    endif
  elseif (iscellstr (s))
    ## Convoluted approach converts cellstr to char matrix, trims the character
    ## matrix using indexing, and then converts back to cellstr with mat2cell.
    ## This approach is 28X faster than using cellfun and recursive call to strtrunc
    idx = cellfun ("length", s) > n;
    s(idx) = mat2cell (char (s(idx))(:, 1:n), ones (sum (idx), 1));
  else
    error ("strtrunc: S must be a character string or a cell array of strings");
  endif

endfunction


%!assert (strtrunc("abcdefg", 4), "abcd");
%!assert (strtrunc("abcdefg", 10), "abcdefg");
%!assert (strtrunc(char ("abcdef", "fedcba"), 3), ["abc"; "fed"]);
%!assert (strtrunc({"abcdef", "fedcba"}, 3), {"abc", "fed"});

%% Test input validation
%!error strtrunc ()
%!error strtrunc ("abcd")
%!error strtrunc ("abcd", 4, 5)
%!error <S must be a character string or a cell array of strings> strtrunc (1, 1)