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+## Copyright (C) 2001, 2008 Paul Kienzle
+##
+## 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/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {x} = csvwrite (@var{filename}, @var{x})
+## Write the matrix @var{x} to a file.
+##
+## This function is equivalent to dlmwrite(@var{filename},@var{x},",",...)
+##
+## @seealso{dlmread, dlmwrite, csvread}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+function csvwrite(f, m, varargin)
+  dlmwrite (f, m, ',', varargin{:});
+endfunction