# Copyright (C) 1994, 1995 John W. Eaton
# 
# This file is part of Octave.
# 
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function dump_1_pref (file, var)

  if (nargin != 2)
    usage ("dump_1_pref (file, var)");
  endif

  eval (sprintf ("tmp = %s;", var));

  if (isstr (tmp))
    fprintf (file, "  %s = \"%s\"\n", var, undo_string_escapes (tmp));
  elseif (is_scalar (tmp))
    fprintf (file, "  %s = %g\n", var, tmp);
  else
    fprintf (file, "  %s = \"wrong type arg\"\n", var);
  endif

endfunction