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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
-