X-Git-Url: https://git.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/pubgit/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=octave_packages%2Fm%2Fmiscellaneous%2Fdelete.m;fp=octave_packages%2Fm%2Fmiscellaneous%2Fdelete.m;h=dbf03953d9291264be97c42cec2dbe9ef0a7fa25;hb=1c0469ada9531828709108a4882a751d2816994a;hp=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000;hpb=63de9f36673d49121015e3695f2c336ea92bc278;p=CreaPhase.git diff --git a/octave_packages/m/miscellaneous/delete.m b/octave_packages/m/miscellaneous/delete.m new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dbf0395 --- /dev/null +++ b/octave_packages/m/miscellaneous/delete.m @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +## Copyright (C) 2004-2012 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 +## . + +## -*- texinfo -*- +## @deftypefn {Function File} {} delete (@var{file}) +## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} delete (@var{handle}) +## Delete the named file or graphics handle. +## +## Deleting graphics objects is the proper way to remove +## features from a plot without clearing the entire figure. +## @seealso{clf, cla, unlink} +## @end deftypefn + +## Author: jwe + +function delete (arg) + + if (nargin != 1) + print_usage (); + endif + + if (ischar (arg)) + files = glob (arg); + if (isempty (files)) + warning ("delete: no such file: %s", arg); + endif + for i = 1:length (files) + file = files{i}; + [err, msg] = unlink (file); + if (err) + warning ("delete: %s: %s", file, msg); + endif + endfor + elseif (all (ishandle (arg(:)))) + ## Delete a graphics object. + __go_delete__ (arg); + else + error ("delete: first argument must be a filename or graphics handle"); + endif + +endfunction + + +%% Test input validation +%!error delete () +%!error delete (1, 2) +%!error delete (struct ()) +