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+## Copyright (C) 2007-2012 David Bateman
+##
+## 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.
+##
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+## 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} {} celldisp (@var{c}, @var{name})
+## Recursively display the contents of a cell array. By default the values
+## are displayed with the name of the variable @var{c}. However, this name
+## can be replaced with the variable @var{name}. For example:
+##
+## @example
+## @group
+## c = @{1, 2, @{31, 32@}@};
+## celldisp (c, "b")
+## @result{}
+## b@{1@} =
+## 1
+## b@{2@} =
+## 2
+## b@{3@}@{1@} =
+## 31
+## b@{3@}@{2@} =
+## 32
+## @end group
+## @end example
+##
+## @seealso{disp}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## This is ugly, but seems to be what matlab does..
+
+function celldisp (c, name)
+ if (nargin < 1 || nargin > 2)
+ print_usage ();
+ endif
+
+ if (! iscell (c))
+ error ("celldisp: argument must be a cell array");
+ endif
+
+ if (nargin == 1)
+ name = inputname (1);
+ endif
+
+ for i = 1: numel (c)
+ if (iscell (c{i}))
+ celldisp (c{i}, sprintf ("%s{%s}", name, indices (size (c), i)));
+ else
+ disp (sprintf ("%s{%s} = \n", name, indices (size (c), i)));
+ disp (c{i});
+ disp ("");
+ endif
+ endfor
+endfunction
+
+function s = indices (dv, i)
+ if (sum (dv != 1) > 1)
+ c = cell (size (dv));
+ [c{:}] = ind2sub (dv, i);
+ s = sprintf("%i,", c{:});
+ s(end) = [];
+ else
+ s = sprintf("%i", i);
+ endif
+endfunction
+
+%!demo
+%! c = {1, 2, {31, 32}};
+%! celldisp(c, "b")
+
+%!error celldisp ();
+%!error celldisp ({}, "name", 1);
+%!error celldisp (1);