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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: deblank (s)
- ##
- ## Remove trailing blanks from the string s.
-
- ## Author: Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
- ## Adapted-By: jwe
- ## Modified by Klaus Gebhardt, 1998
-
- function t = deblank (s)
-
- if (nargin != 1)
- usage ("deblank (s)");
- endif
-
- if (isstr (s))
-
- [nr, nc] = size (s);
- len = nr * nc;
-
- if (len == 0)
- t = s;
- elseif (s == " ")
- t = "";
- else
- s = reshape (s, 1, len);
- k = ceil (max (find (s != " ")) / nr) * nr;
- t = reshape (s (1:k), nr, k / nr);
- endif
-
- else
- error ("deblank: expecting string argument");
- endif
-
- endfunction
-