# HG changeset patch
# User John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
# Date 1235668168 18000
# Node ID ebb8c1dcf4d310cf620bdb7eadbc599fa31c90ab
# Parent  2c8b2399247beb0e23ed8185af2341a534abf6a5
split.m: add warning, note version

diff -r 2c8b2399247b -r ebb8c1dcf4d3 scripts/ChangeLog
--- a/scripts/ChangeLog	Thu Feb 26 10:29:59 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/ChangeLog	Thu Feb 26 12:09:28 2009 -0500
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2009-02-26  John W. Eaton  <jwe@octave.org>
+
+	* deprecated/split.m: Add warning, not about version.
+
 2009-02-26  Jaroslav Hajek  <highegg@gmail.com>
 
 	* strings/strsplit.m: New function.
diff -r 2c8b2399247b -r ebb8c1dcf4d3 scripts/deprecated/split.m
--- a/scripts/deprecated/split.m	Thu Feb 26 10:29:59 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/deprecated/split.m	Thu Feb 26 12:09:28 2009 -0500
@@ -49,8 +49,17 @@
 ## Author: Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at>
 ## Adapted-By: jwe
 
+## Deprecated in version 3.2
+
 function m = split (s, t, n)
 
+  persistent warned = false;
+  if (! warned)
+    warned = true;
+    warning ("Octave:deprecated-function",
+             "split is obsolete and will be removed from a future version of Octave; please use strsplit instead");
+  endif
+
   if (nargin == 2 || nargin == 3)
     if (nargin == 2)
       n = length (s);