## Copyright (C) 1996 Kurt Hornik
##
## This file is part of Octave.
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} deblank (@var{s})
## Removes the trailing blanks from the string @var{s}. 
## @end deftypefn

## Author: Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
## Adapted-By: jwe

function t = deblank (s)

  if (nargin != 1)
    usage ("deblank (s)");
  endif

  if (isstr (s))

    [nr, nc] = size (s);
    len = nr * nc;

    if (len == 0)
      t = s;
    elseif (s == " ")
      t = "";
    else
      s = reshape (s, 1, len);
      k = ceil (max (find (s != " ")) / nr) * nr;
      t = reshape (s (1:k), nr, k / nr);
    endif

  else
    error ("deblank: expecting string argument");
  endif

endfunction