# HG changeset patch
# User John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
# Date 1263372552 18000
# Node ID d90736774da2e51e176b62c870e2f57b94b2d6b1
# Parent  02453ee2014004e878b3d561dbec90d27a686f1d
inputname: use isvarname instead of regexp

diff -r 02453ee20140 -r d90736774da2 scripts/ChangeLog
--- a/scripts/ChangeLog	Wed Jan 13 03:40:45 2010 -0500
+++ b/scripts/ChangeLog	Wed Jan 13 03:49:12 2010 -0500
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2010-01-13  John W. Eaton  <jwe@octave.org>
+
+	* miscellaneous/inputname.m: Use isvarname instead of regexp.
+
 2010-01-13  John W. Eaton  <jwe@octave.org>
 
 	* miscellaneous/inputname.m: Return "" if argument name is not a
diff -r 02453ee20140 -r d90736774da2 scripts/miscellaneous/inputname.m
--- a/scripts/miscellaneous/inputname.m	Wed Jan 13 03:40:45 2010 -0500
+++ b/scripts/miscellaneous/inputname.m	Wed Jan 13 03:49:12 2010 -0500
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
     s = evalin ("caller", sprintf ("deblank (argn(%d,:));", n));
     ## For compatibility with Matlab, return empty string if argument
     ## name is not a valid identifier.
-    if (isempty (regexp (s, "^[_a-zA-Z][_a-zA-Z0-9]*$")))
+    if (! isvarname (s))
       s = "";
     endif
   else