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also return help text as a string when nargin = 0 (bug #37183) * help.m: Return help text if nargin == 0 && nargout != 0.
author John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
date Fri, 24 Aug 2012 14:46:55 -0400
parents ae42d5a67ed9
children 049e8bbff782
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--- a/scripts/help/help.m
+++ b/scripts/help/help.m
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 
   if (nargin == 0)
 
-    puts ("\n\
+    text = "\n\
   For help with individual commands and functions type\n\
 \n\
     help NAME\n\
@@ -58,7 +58,13 @@
     doc\n\
 \n\
   GNU Octave is supported and developed by its user community.\n\
-  For more information visit http://www.octave.org.\n\n");
+  For more information visit http://www.octave.org.\n\n";
+
+    if (nargout == 0)
+      puts (text);
+    else
+      retval = text;
+    endif
 
   elseif (nargin == 1 && ischar (name))