## Copyright (C) 2007 Muthiah Annamalai <muthiah.annamalai@uta.edu>
## Copyright (C) 2013 Ben Abbott <bpabbott@mac.com>
##
## This file is part of Octave.
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{str} =} strjoin (@var{cstr})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{str} =} strjoin (@var{cstr}, @var{delimiter})
## Joins the elements of the cell-string array, @var{cstr}, into a single
## string.
##
## If no @var{delimiter} is specified, the elements of @var{cstr}
## seperated by a space.
##
## If @var{delimiter} is specified as a string, the cell-string array is
## joined using the string.
##
## If @var{delimiter} is a cell-string array whose length is one less
## than @var{cstr}, then the elemennts of @var{cstr} are joined by
## interleaving the cell-string elements of @var{delimiter}.
##
## @example
## @group
## strjoin (@{'Octave','Scilab','Lush','Yorick'@}, '*')
##       @result{} 'Octave*Scilab*Lush*Yorick'
## @end group
## @end example
## @seealso {strsplit}
## @end deftypefn

function rval = strjoin (cstr, delimiter)

  if (nargin == 1)
    delimiter = " ";
  elseif (nargin < 1 || nargin > 2)
    print_usage ();
  elseif (! (iscellstr (cstr) && (ischar (delimiter) || iscellstr (delimiter))))
    print_usage ();
  endif

  if (numel (cstr) == 1)
    rval = cstr{1};
    return
  endif

  if (ischar (delimiter))
    delimiter = {delimiter};
  end
 
  num = numel (cstr); 
  if (numel (delimiter) == 1 && num > 1)
    delimiter = repmat (delimiter, 1, num);
    delimiter(end) = {""};
  elseif (numel (delimiter) != num - 1)
    error ("strjoin:cellstring_delimiter_mismatch",
      "strjoin: the number of delimiters does not match the number of strings")
  else
    delimiter(end+1) = {""};
  endif

  rval = sprintf ("%s", [cstr(:).'; delimiter(:).']{:});

endfunction

%!assert (strjoin ({"hello"}, "-"), "hello")
%!assert (strjoin ({"hello", "world"}), "hello world")
%!assert (strjoin ({"Octave", "Scilab", "Lush", "Yorick"}, "*"),
%!  "Octave*Scilab*Lush*Yorick")
%!assert (strjoin ({"space", "comma", "dash", "semicolon", "done"},
%!  {" ", ",", "-", ";"}), "space comma,dash-semicolon;done")