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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} strtrim (@var{s})
## Remove leading and trailing blanks and nulls from @var{s}.  If
## @var{s} is a matrix, @var{strtrim} trims each row to the length of
## longest string.  If @var{s} is a cell array, operate recursively on
## each element of the cell array. For example:
##
## @example
## @group
## strtrim ("    abc  ")
##      @result{} "abc"
##
## strtrim ([" abc   "; "   def   "])
##      @result{} ["abc  "; "  def"]
## @end group
## @end example
## @end deftypefn

## Author: John Swensen <jpswensen@jhu.edu>

## This function was derived from deblank.

function s = strtrim (s)

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

  if (ischar (s))

    k = find (! isspace (s) & s != "\0");
    if (isempty (s) || isempty (k))
      s = "";
    else
      s = s(:,ceil (min (k) / rows (s)):ceil (max (k) / rows (s)));
    endif

  elseif (iscell(s))

    s = cellfun (@strtrim, s, "UniformOutput", false);

  else
    error ("strtrim: expecting string argument");
  endif

endfunction

%!error <Invalid call to strtrim> strtrim();
%!error <Invalid call to strtrim> strtrim("abc", "def");
%!assert (strtrim ("    abc  "), "abc");
%!assert (strtrim ([" abc   "; "   def   "]), ["abc  "; "  def"]);