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+## Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Rik Wehbring
+##
+## 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 3 of the License, or (at
+## your option) any later version.
+##
+## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+## General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, see
+## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {} nfields (@var{s})
+## Return the number of fields of the structure @var{s}.
+##
+## @strong{Warning:} @code{nfields} is scheduled for removal in version 4.4.
+## Use @code{numfields} instead.
+## @seealso{numfields, fieldnames}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Deprecated in 4.0
+
+function retval = nfields (varargin)
+
+  persistent warned = false;
+  if (! warned)
+    warned = true;
+    warning ("Octave:deprecated-function",
+             "nfields is obsolete and will be removed from a future version of Octave; please use numfields instead");
+  endif
+
+  if (nargin < 1)
+    print_usage ();
+  endif
+
+  retval = numfields (varargin{:});
+
+endfunction
+