## Copyright (C) 2007  David Bateman
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} structfun (@var{func}, @var{s})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {[@var{a}, @var{b}] =} structfun (@dots{})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} structfun (@dots{}, 'ErrorHandler', @var{errfunc})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} structfun (@dots{}, 'UniformOutput', @var{val})
## 
## Evaluate the function named @var{name} on the fields of the structure
## @var{s}. The fields of @var{s} are passed the the function @var{func}
## individually.
##
## @code{structfun} accepts an arbitrary function @var{func} in the form of 
## an inline function, function handle, or the name of a function (in a 
## character string). In the case of a character string argument, the 
## function must accept a single argument named @var{x}, and it must return 
## a string value. If the function returns more than one argument, they are
## returned as separate output variables.
##
## If the param 'UniformOutput' is set to true (the default), then the function
## must return either a single element which will be concatenated into the
## return value. If 'UniformOutput is false, the outputs placed in a structure
## with the same fieldnames as the input structure.
## 
## @example
## @group
## s.name1 = "John Smith"; 
## s.name2 = "Jill Jones"; 
## structfun (@{x@} regexp (x, '(\w+)$', 'matches')@{1@}, s, 
##            'UniformOutput', false)
## @end group
## @end example
## 
## Given the parameter 'ErrorHandler', then @var{errfunc} defines a function to
## call in case @var{func} generates an error. The form of the function is
## 
## @example
## function [@dots{}] = errfunc (@var{se}, @dots{})
## @end example
## 
## where there is an additional input argument to @var{errfunc} relative to
## @var{func}, given by @var{se}. This is a structure with the elements
## 'identifier', 'message' and 'index', giving respectively the error
## identifier, the error message, and the index into the input arguments
## of the element that caused the error.
## @seealso{cellfun, arrayfun}
## @end deftypefn

function varargout = structfun (fun, s, varargin);
  if (nargin < 2)
    print_usage ();
  endif

  varargout = cell (max ([nargout, 1]), 1);
  [varargout{:}] = cellfun (fun, struct2cell (s), varargin {:});

  if (iscell (varargout{1}))
    [varargout{:}] = cell2struct (varargout{1}, fieldnames(s), 1);
  endif
endfunction


%!test
%! s.name1 = "John Smith"; 
%! s.name2 = "Jill Jones"; 
%! l.name1 = "Smith";
%! l.name2 = "Jones";
%! o = structfun (@(x) regexp (x, '(\w+)$', 'matches'){1}, s, 
%!		  'UniformOutput', false);
%! assert (o, l);
