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## Copyright (C) 2002 Etienne Grossmann <etienne@egdn.net>
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## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
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## the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
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## Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later
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## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
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## ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
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## FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more
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## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
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## this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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## @deftypefn{Function File} {@var{n} = } temp_name ( rootname, quick )
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## name = temp_name(rootname, quick=1) - Return a name that is not used
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## Returns a name, suitable for defining a new function, script or global
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## variable, of the form
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## Default rootname is "temp_name_"
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## "quick" is an optional parameter, which defaults to 1. If it is false,
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## temp_name() will find the smallest acceptable number for the name.
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## Otherwise, a hopefully quicker method is used.
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function n = temp_name (rootname, quick)
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persistent warned = false;
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warning ("Octave:deprecated-function",
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"temp_name has been deprecated, and will be removed in the future. Use `tmpnam' instead.");
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### Keep track of previously asked names
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persistent cnt = struct ("dummy",0);
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if nargin<1 || !length(rootname), rootname = "temp_name_" ; endif
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if nargin<2, quick = 1; endif
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if ! isfield (cnt, rootname)
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n = sprintf ([rootname,"%i"], c);
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n = sprintf ([rootname,"%i"], c);