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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: m = split (s, t)
- ##
- ## Divides the string S into pieces separated by T, and stores the
- ## pieces as the rows of M (padded with blanks to form a valid
- ## matrix).
-
- ## Author: Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
- ## Adapted-By: jwe
-
- function m = split (s, t)
-
- if (nargin != 2)
- usage ("split (s, t)");
- endif
-
- if (isstr (s) && isstr (t))
-
- l_s = length (s);
- l_t = length (t);
-
- if (l_s < l_t)
- error ("split: s must not be shorter than t");
- endif
-
- if (l_t == 0)
- ind = 1 : (l_s + 1);
- else
- ind = findstr (s, t, 0);
- if (length (ind) == 0)
- m = s;
- return;
- endif
- ind = [1 - l_t, ind, l_s + 1];
- endif
-
- cmd = "";
-
- limit = length (ind) - 1;
-
- for k = 1 : limit
-
- range = (ind (k) + l_t) : ind (k + 1) - 1;
-
- if (k != limit)
- cmd = sprintf ("%s\"%s\", ", cmd, s (range));
- else
- cmd = sprintf ("%s\"%s\"", cmd, s (range));
- endif
-
- endfor
-
- m = eval (sprintf ("str2mat (%s);", cmd));
-
-
- else
- error ("split: both s and t must be strings");
- endif
-
- endfunction
-