## Copyright (C) 1998-2012 John W. Eaton
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} isletter (@var{s})
## Return a logical array which is true where the elements of @var{s}
## are letters and false where they are not.  This is an alias for
## the @code{isalpha} function.
## @seealso{isalpha, isdigit, ispunct, isspace, iscntrl, isalnum}
## @end deftypefn

## Author: jwe

function retval = isletter (s)

  if (nargin != 1)
    print_usage ();
  endif

  retval = isalpha (s);

endfunction


%!error isletter ()
%!error isletter ("a", "b")