[OctDev] str*cmp* functions

[John W. E. <jw...@be...>]

On  1-Jan-2006, William Poetra Yoga Hadisoeseno wrote:

| I've done the following:
| 1. Changed the help text of the strcmp function to reflect its ability
| to accept cell arrays as arguments.
| 2. Simplified the strcmpi and strncmp functions.
| 3. Imported strncmpi from octave-forge and simplified it.
| 4. Written the strtrunc function.
| 
| Explanation:
| 1. strcmp is actually already compatible with Matlab's strcmp, so I
| just added the help text.
| 2. The implementations of strcmpi, strncmp, and strncmpi
| (octave-forge) are too complex, IMO, so I simplified them.
| 3. But the changes made to strncmp and strncmpi needs strtrunc, so I wrote it.
| 4. strtrunc takes a string or cellstr as its first argument (s), then
| truncates it to the value of the second argument (n).
| 
| Although strtrunc is not present in Matlab, I think this is useful, so
| I'm sending it here. I hope John would accept this.
| 
| The attachments:
| 1. str2.diff.txt: diff for strcmp, strcmpi, strncmp
| 2. str2.ChangeLog.src.txt: changelog entry for strcmp
| 3. str2.ChangeLog.scripts.txt: changelog entry for strcmpi, strncmp,
| strncmpi and strtrunc
| 4. strncmpi.m.txt, strtrunc.m.txt: the corresponding functions

I applied these changes.

Thanks,

jwe