## Copyright (C) 2003-2012 John W. Eaton
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} isstr (@var{a})
## This function has been deprecated.  Use ischar instead.
## @end deftypefn

## Author: jwe

## Deprecated in version 3.0
## Matlab still has this function, so don't remove just yet.

function retval = isstr (varargin)

  persistent warned = false;
  if (! warned)
    warned = true;
    warning ("Octave:deprecated-function",
             "isstr is obsolete and will be removed from a future version of Octave, please use ischar instead");
  endif

  retval = ischar (varargin{:});

endfunction