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+## Copyright (C) 1993-2012 John W. Eaton
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
+## Octave 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.
+##
+## Octave 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 Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see
+## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {} menu (@var{title}, @var{opt1}, @dots{})
+## Print a title string followed by a series of options. Each option will
+## be printed along with a number. The return value is the number of the
+## option selected by the user. This function is useful for interactive
+## programs. There is no limit to the number of options that may be passed
+## in, but it may be confusing to present more than will fit easily on one
+## screen.
+## @seealso{disp, printf, input}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Author: jwe
+
+function num = menu (title, varargin)
+
+ if (nargin < 2)
+ print_usage ();
+ endif
+
+ ## Force pending output to appear before the menu.
+
+ fflush (stdout);
+
+ ## Don't send the menu through the pager since doing that can cause
+ ## major confusion.
+
+ page_screen_output (0, "local");
+
+ if (! isempty (title))
+ disp (title);
+ printf ("\n");
+ endif
+
+ nopt = nargin - 1;
+
+ while (1)
+ for i = 1:nopt
+ printf (" [%2d] ", i);
+ disp (varargin{i});
+ endfor
+ printf ("\n");
+ s = input ("pick a number, any number: ", "s");
+ num = sscanf (s, "%d");
+ if (! isscalar (num) || num < 1 || num > nopt)
+ printf ("\nerror: input invalid or out of range\n\n");
+ else
+ break;
+ endif
+ endwhile
+
+endfunction
+