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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: substr (s, offset, len)
- ##
- ## Returns the substring of S of length LEN starting at index OFFSET.
- ## If OFFSET is negative, extraction starts that far from the end of
- ## the string. If LEN is omitted, the substring extends to the end
- ## of S.
-
- ## Author: Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
- ## Adapted-By: jwe
-
- function t = substr (s, offset, len)
-
- if (nargin < 2 || nargin > 3)
- usage ("substr (s, offset [, len])");
- endif
-
- if (isstr (s))
- nc = columns (s);
- if (abs (offset) > 0 && abs (offset) <= nc)
- if (offset > 0)
- beg = offset;
- else
- beg = nc + offset + 1;
- endif
- if (nargin == 2)
- eos = nc;
- else
- eos = beg + len - 1;
- endif
- if (eos <= nc)
- t = s (:, beg:eos);
- else
- error ("substr: length = %d out of range", len);
- endif
- else
- error ("substr: offset = %d out of range", offset);
- endif
- else
- error ("substr: expecting string argument");
- endif
-
- endfunction
-