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[project @ 1996-05-24 00:53:19 by jwe]
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| date | Fri, 24 May 1996 00:53:19 +0000 |
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| 1 # Copyright (C) 1996 John W. Eaton | |
| 2 # | |
| 3 # This file is part of Octave. | |
| 4 # | |
| 5 # Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it | |
| 6 # under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the | |
| 7 # Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any | |
| 8 # later version. | |
| 9 # | |
| 10 # Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT | |
| 11 # ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or | |
| 12 # FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License | |
| 13 # for more details. | |
| 14 # | |
| 15 # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
| 16 # along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free | |
| 17 # Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. | |
| 18 | |
| 19 function s = blanks (n) | |
| 20 | |
| 21 # usage: blanks (n) | |
| 22 # | |
| 23 # Returns a string of n blanks. | |
| 24 | |
| 25 # Original version by Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>. | |
| 26 | |
| 27 if (nargin != 1) | |
| 28 usage ("blanks (n)"); | |
| 29 endif | |
| 30 | |
| 31 if (is_scalar (n) && n > 0 && n == round (n)) | |
| 32 s = setstr (ones (1, n) * toascii (" ")); | |
| 33 else | |
| 34 error ("blanks: n must be a positive integer"); | |
| 35 endif | |
| 36 | |
| 37 endfunction | |
| 38 | |
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