/*

Copyright (C) 1996 John W. Eaton

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.

*/

#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
#include <config.h>
#endif

#include <cctype>

#include "dMatrix.h"

#include "defun.h"
#include "error.h"
#include "gripes.h"
#include "help.h"
#include "pt-const.h"
#include "oct-obj.h"
#include "utils.h"

DEFUN (isstr, args, ,
  "isstr (X): return 1 if X is a string, 0 otherwise")
{
  Octave_object retval;

  int nargin = args.length ();

  if (nargin == 1 && args(0).is_defined ())
    retval = (double) args(0).is_string ();
  else
    print_usage ("isstr");

  return retval;
}

DEFUN (setstr, args, ,
  "setstr (V): convert a vector to a string")
{
  Octave_object retval;

  int nargin = args.length ();

  if (nargin == 1 && args(0).is_defined ())
    retval = args(0).convert_to_str ();
  else
    print_usage ("setstr");

  return retval;
}

DEFUN (toascii, args, ,
  "toascii (STRING): return ASCII representation of STRING in a matrix")
{
  Octave_object retval;

  int nargin = args.length ();

  if (nargin == 1)
    {
      tree_constant arg = args(0);

      if (arg.is_string ())
	{
	  charMatrix chm = args(0).all_strings ();

	  retval = Matrix (chm);
	}
      else
	gripe_wrong_type_arg ("toascii", arg);
    }
  else
    print_usage ("toascii");

  return retval;
}

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