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1 ## Copyright (C) 2008, 2009 Jaroslav Hajek
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2 ##
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3 ## This file is part of Octave.
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4 ##
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5 ## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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6 ## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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7 ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
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8 ## your option) any later version.
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9 ##
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10 ## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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11 ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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12 ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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13 ## General Public License for more details.
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14 ##
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15 ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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16 ## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see
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17 ## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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19 ## -*- texinfo -*-
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20 ## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{idx} =} strchr (@var{str}, @var{chars})
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21 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{idx} =} strchr (@var{str}, @var{chars}, @var{n})
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22 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{idx} =} strchr (@var{str}, @var{chars}, @var{n}, @var{direction})
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23 ## Search for the string @var{str} for occurrences of characters from the set @var{chars}.
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24 ## The return value, as well as the @var{n} and @var{direction} arguments behave
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25 ## identically as in @code{find}.
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26 ##
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27 ## This will be faster than using regexp in most cases.
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28 ##
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29 ## @seealso{find}
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30 ## @end deftypefn
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32 function varargout = strchr (str, chars, varargin)
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33 if (nargin < 2 || ! ischar (str) || ! ischar (chars))
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34 print_usage ();
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35 endif
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36 f = false (1, 256);
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37 f(chars + 1) = true;
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38 varargout = cell (1, nargout);
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39 varargout{1} = [];
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40 [varargout{:}] = find (reshape (f(str + 1), size (str)), varargin{:});
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41 endfunction
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43 %!assert(strchr("Octave is the best software","best"),[3, 6, 9, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 23, 27])