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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 = str2num (s)
- ##
- ## Convert the string S to a number.
-
- ## Author: jwe
-
- function m = str2num (s)
-
- if (nargin == 1 && isstr (s))
- [nr, nc] = size (s);
- sep = ";";
- sep = sep (ones (nr, 1), 1);
- s = sprintf ("m = [%s];", reshape ([s, sep]', 1, nr * (nc + 1)));
- eval (s, "m = [];");
- else
- usage ("str2num (s)");
- endif
-
- endfunction
-