# Copyright (C) 1996 John W. Eaton
# 
# This file is part of Octave.
# 
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function s = blanks (n)
  
# usage:  blanks (n)
#
# Returns a string of n blanks.
  
# Original version by Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>.

  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