## 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
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## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
## General Public License for more details.
##
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## Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA
## 02111-1307, USA.

## usage: strcat (s, t, ...)
##
## Concatenate strings.

## Author: jwe

function st = strcat (s, t, ...)

  if (nargin > 1)
    if (isstr (s) && isstr (t))
      tmpst = [s, t];
    else
      error ("strcat: all arguments must be strings");
    endif
    n = nargin - 2;
    while (n--)
      tmp = va_arg ();
      if (isstr (tmp))
        tmpst = [tmpst, tmp];
      else
        error ("strcat: all arguments must be strings");
      endif
    endwhile
  else
    usage ("strcat (s, t, ...)");
  endif

  st = tmpst;

endfunction