/*

Copyright (C) 2007 John W. Eaton

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/>.

*/

#include <octave/oct.h>

DEFUN_DLD (globaldemo, args, , "Global demo.")
{
  int nargin = args.length ();
  octave_value retval;

  if (nargin != 1)
    print_usage ();
  else
    {
      std::string s = args(0).string_value ();
      if (! error_state)
        {
          octave_value tmp = get_global_value (s, true);
          if (tmp.is_defined ())
            retval = tmp;
          else
            retval = "Global variable not found";

          set_global_value ("a", 42.0);
        }
    }
  return retval;
}