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+## Copyright (C) 2000 Etienne Grossmann <etienne@egdn.net>
+## Copyright (C) 2012 Olaf Till <i7tiol@t-online.de>
+##
+## This program 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.
+##
+## This program 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
+## this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## s = tars (foo,bar, ... ) == struct ("foo",foo,"bar",bar,...)
+##
+## Groups foo, bar, ... into a struct whose fields are "foo", "bar" ...
+## and such that s.foo == foo, s.bar == bar ...
+##
+## See also : untar
+
+function s = tars (varargin)
+
+ s = cell2struct (varargin, deblank (cellstr (argn)), 2);
+
+endfunction