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1 ## Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009 Paul Kienzle
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2 ## Copyright (C) 2009 Jaroslav Hajek
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3 ##
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4 ## This file is part of Octave.
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5 ##
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6 ## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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7 ## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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8 ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
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9 ## your option) any later version.
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10 ##
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11 ## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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13 ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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14 ## General Public License for more details.
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15 ##
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16 ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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17 ## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see
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18 ## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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20 ## -*- texinfo -*-
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21 ## @deftypefn {Function File} strjust (@var{s})
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22 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} strjust (@var{s}, "right")
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23 ## Returns the text, S, justified to the right.
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24 ##
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25 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} strjust (@var{s}, "left")
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26 ## Returns left justified text.
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27 ##
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28 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} strjust (@var{s}, "center")
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29 ## Returns center justified text.
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30 ##
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31 ## Null characters are replaced by spaces. All other character
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32 ## data are treated as non-white space.
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33 ##
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34 ## Example:
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35 ## @example
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36 ## @group
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37 ## strjust (["a"; "ab"; "abc"; "abcd"])
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38 ## @result{} ans =
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39 ## a
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40 ## ab
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41 ## abc
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42 ## abcd
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43 ## @end group
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44 ## @end example
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45 ## @seealso{deblank, strtrim}
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46 ## @end deftypefn
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48 function y = strjust (x, just)
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50 if (nargin < 1 || nargin > 2)
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51 print_usage ();
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52 endif
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54 if (nargin == 1)
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55 just = "right";
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56 else
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57 just = tolower (just);
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58 endif
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60 if (ndims (x) != 2)
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61 error ("strjust: input must be a string or character matrix");
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62 endif
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64 if (isempty (x))
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65 y = x;
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66 else
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67 ## Apparently, Matlab considers nulls to be blanks as well; however, does
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68 ## not preserve the nulls, but rather converts them to blanks. That's a
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69 ## bit unexpected, but it allows simpler processing, because we can move
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70 ## just the nonblank characters. So we'll do the same here.
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72 [nr, nc] = size (x);
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73 ## Find the indices of all nonblanks.
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74 nonbl = x != " " & x != "\0";
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75 [idx, jdx] = find (nonbl);
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77 if (strcmp (just, "right"))
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78 ## We wish to find the maximum column index for each row. Because jdx is
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79 ## sorted, we can take advantage of the fact that assignment is processed
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80 ## sequentially and for duplicate indices the last value will remain.
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81 maxs = nc * ones (nr, 1);
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82 maxs(idx) = jdx;
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83 shift = nc - maxs;
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84 elseif (strcmp (just, "left"))
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85 ## See above for explanation.
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86 mins = ones (nr, 1);
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87 mins(flipud (idx(:))) = flipud (jdx(:));
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88 shift = 1 - mins;
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89 else
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90 ## Use both of the above.
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91 mins = ones (nr, 1);
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92 mins(flipud (idx(:))) = flipud (jdx(:));
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93 maxs = nc * ones (nr, 1);
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94 maxs(idx) = jdx;
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95 shift = floor ((nc + 1 - maxs - mins) / 2);
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96 endif
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98 ## Adjust the column indices.
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99 jdx += shift (idx);
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101 ## Create a blank matrix and position the nonblank characters.
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102 y = " "(ones (1, nr), ones (1, nc));
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103 y(sub2ind ([nr, nc], idx, jdx)) = x(nonbl);
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106 endfunction
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108 %!error <Invalid call to strjust> strjust();
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109 %!error <Invalid call to strjust> strjust(["a";"ab"], "center", 1);
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110 %!assert (strjust (["a"; "ab"; "abc"; "abcd"]),
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111 %! [" a";" ab"; " abc"; "abcd"]);
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112 %!assert (strjust (["a"; "ab"; "abc"; "abcd"], "center"),
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113 %! [" a "; " ab"; "abc "; "abcd"]);