## 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.
##
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##
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## usage: xlabel (text)
##
## Defines a label for the x-axis of a plot.  The label will appear the
## next time a plot is displayed.
##
## See also: plot, semilogx, semilogy, loglog, polar, mesh, contour,
##           bar, stairs, gplot, gsplot, replot, ylabel, title

## Author: jwe

function xlabel (text)

  if (nargin != 1)
    usage ("xlabel (text)");
  endif

  if (isstr (text))
    command = sprintf ("gset xlabel \"%s\"", text);
    eval (command);
  else
    error ("xlabel: text must be a string");
  endif

endfunction