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9245 | 1 ## Copyright (C) 2008, 2009 Julian Schnidder |
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3 ## This file is part of Octave. | |
4 ## | |
5 ## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it | |
6 ## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | |
7 ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at | |
8 ## your option) any later version. | |
9 ## | |
10 ## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but | |
11 ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
12 ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU | |
13 ## General Public License for more details. | |
14 ## | |
15 ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
16 ## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see | |
17 ## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. | |
18 | |
19 ## -*- texinfo -*- | |
20 ## @deftypefn {Function File} {[@var{output}, @var{status}] =} perl (@var{scriptfile}) | |
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21 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {[@var{output}, @var{status}] =} perl (@var{scriptfile}, @var{argument1}, @var{argument2}, @dots{}) |
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23 ## command line arguments. | |
24 ## Returns output in @var{output} and status | |
25 ## in @var{status}. | |
26 ## @seealso{system} | |
27 ## @end deftypefn | |
28 | |
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29 function [output, status] = perl (script = "-e ''", varargin) |
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31 ## VARARGIN is intialized to {}(1x0) if no additional arguments are |
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32 ## supplied, so there is no need to check for it, or provide an |
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33 ## initial value in the argument list of the function definition. |
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35 if (ischar (script) | |
36 && ((nargin != 1 && iscellstr (varargin)) | |
37 || (nargin == 1 && ! isempty (script)))) | |
38 [status, output] = system (cstrcat ("perl ", script, | |
39 sprintf (" %s", varargin{:}))); | |
40 else | |
41 error ("perl: invalid arguments"); | |
42 endif | |
43 | |
44 endfunction |