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+#! /usr/bin/perl -w
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2012 Rik Wehbring
+#
+# 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 3 of the License, 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, see
+# <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## Expecting arguments in this order:
+##
+##  SRCDIR SRCDIR-FILES ... -- LOCAL-FILES ...
+
+unless (@ARGV >= 2) { die "Usage: $0 srcdir m_filename1 ..." ; }
+
+$srcdir = shift (@ARGV) . '/';
+
+print <<__END_OF_MSG__;
+### DO NOT EDIT!
+###
+### This file is generated automatically from Octave source files.
+### Edit source files directly and run make to update this file.
+
+__END_OF_MSG__
+
+MFILE: foreach $m_fname (@ARGV)
+{
+  if ($m_fname eq "--")
+  {
+    $srcdir = "./";
+    next MFILE;
+  }
+
+  $full_fname = $srcdir . $m_fname;
+  next MFILE unless ( $full_fname =~ m{(.*)/(@|)([^/]*)/(.*)\.m} );
+  if ($2) {
+    $fcn = "$2$3/$4";
+  } else {
+    $fcn = $4;
+  }
+
+  @help_txt = mygethelp ($fcn, $full_fname);
+  next MFILE if ($help_txt[0] eq "");
+
+  print "$fcn\n";
+  print "\@c $fcn scripts/$m_fname\n";
+
+  foreach $_ (@help_txt)
+  {
+    s/^\s+\@/\@/ unless $in_example;
+    s/^\s+\@group/\@group/;
+    s/^\s+\@end\s+group/\@end group/;
+    $in_example = (/\s*\@example\b/ .. /\s*\@end\s+example\b/);
+    print $_;
+  }
+}
+
+################################################################################
+# Subroutines
+################################################################################
+sub mygethelp
+{
+  ($fcn, $fname) = @_[0..1]; 
+  open (FH, $fname) or return "";
+
+  do
+  {
+    @help_txt = ();
+
+    ## Advance to non-blank line
+    while (defined ($_ = <FH>) and /^\s*$/) {;}
+
+    if (! /^\s*(?:#|%)/ or eof (FH))
+    {
+      ## No comment block found.  Return empty string
+      close (FH);
+      return "";
+    }
+
+    ## Extract help text stopping when comment block ends
+    do
+    {
+      ## Remove comment characters at start of line
+      s/^\s*(?:#|%){1,2} ?//;
+      push (@help_txt, $_);
+    } until (! defined ($_ = <FH>) or ! /^\s*(?:#|%)/);
+
+  } until ($help_txt[0] !~ /^(?:Copyright|Author)/); 
+
+  close (FH);
+
+  return @help_txt;
+}