/usr/share/octave/packages/miscellaneous-1.2.1/slurp_file.m is in octave-miscellaneous 1.2.1-4.
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 | ## Copyright (C) 2002 Etienne Grossmann <etienne@egdn.net>
##
## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
## the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
## Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later
## version.
##
## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
## ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
## FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more
## details.
##
## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
## this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn{Function File} {@var{s} = } slurp_file ( f )
## @cindex
## slurp_file return a whole text file @var{f} as a string @var{s}.
##
## @var{f} : string : filename
## @var{s} : string : contents of the file
##
## If @var{f} is not an absolute filename, and
## is not an immediately accessible file, slurp_file ()
## will look for @var{f} in the path.
## @end deftypefn
function s = slurp_file (f)
if (nargin != 1)
print_usage;
elseif ! ischar (f)
error ("f is not a string");
elseif isempty (f)
error ("f is empty");
endif
s = "";
f0 = f;
[st,err,msg] = stat (f);
if err && f(1) != "/",
f = file_in_loadpath (f);
if isempty (f)
## Could not find it anywhere. Open will fail
f = f0;
error ("slurp_file : Can't find '%s' anywhere",f0);
end
end
## I'll even get decent error messages!
[status, s] = system (sprintf ("cat '%s'",f), 1);
endfunction
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