[OctDev] allowing mex to pass in a help string?

[Dan M. <dan...@mc...>]

With matlab mex, I typically would do something like create

myfn.c  -- the C-mex file
myfn.m  -- a matlab.m file which is only comments for the help output

then when I do 'help myfn' in matlab I get the help text.

With the octave mex interface it seems like I can sort of get there
by creating the .m file, but what I get for help output is

type(file_in_loadpath('myfn.m'))

If I execute that, I get the contents of myfn.m including the '%' comments
which means I can't just paste a multi-line example into octave.  

I guess I can use awk or sed to strip the leading '%' and have the .m
file really just be a text help file, but it would seem that it might be
nice to have a more automated way of getting the help to work.

Any suggestions?

I don't mind hacking on the mex script if thats whats needed.

Thanks

-Dan

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