1 ## Copyright (C) 2008-2012 David Bateman
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20 ## @deftypefn {Function File} {} display (@var{a})
21 ## Display the contents of an object. If @var{a} is an object of the
22 ## class "myclass", then @code{display} is called in a case like
29 ## where Octave is required to display the contents of a variable of the
32 ## @seealso{class, subsref, subsasgn}
35 function idx = display (a)
41 ## Only reason we got here is that there was no overloaded display()
42 ## function for object a. This may mean it is a built-in.
44 if (isempty (strfind (str, "<class ")))
47 error ('display: not defined for class "%s"', class (a));