## Copyright (C) 1996 Kurt Hornik
##
## This file is part of Octave.
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} deblank (@var{s})
## Removes the trailing blanks and nulls from the string @var{s}.
## If @var{s} is a matrix, @var{deblank} trims each row to the 
## length of longest string.
## @end deftypefn

## Author: Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
## Adapted-By: jwe

function t = deblank (s)

  if (nargin != 1)
    usage ("deblank (s)");
  endif

  if (isstr (s))

    k = find (s != " " & s != "\0");
    if (isempty (s) || isempty (k))
      t = "";
    else
      t = s(:,1:ceil (max (k) / rows (s)));
    endif

  else
    error ("deblank: expecting string argument");
  endif

endfunction
