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[project @ 1996-08-20 23:30:54 by jwe]
author | jwe |
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date | Tue, 20 Aug 1996 23:32:09 +0000 |
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## Copyright (C) 1996 Kurt Hornik ## ## 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 2, 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, write to the Free ## Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA ## 02111-1307, USA. ## usage: blanks (n) ## ## Returns a string of n blanks. ## Author: Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at> ## Adapted-By: jwe function s = blanks (n) if (nargin != 1) usage ("blanks (n)"); endif if (is_scalar (n) && n > 0 && n == round (n)) s = setstr (ones (1, n) * toascii (" ")); else error ("blanks: n must be a positive integer"); endif endfunction