strappend.m

similer program for matlab

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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} strappend (@var{strlist}, @var{suffix})
## Append string @var{suffix} to each string in the list @var{strlist}.
## @end deftypefn

function retval = strappend (strlist, suffix);

  if (nargin != 2)
    print_usage ();
  elseif (! is_signal_list (strlist))
    error ("strlist must be a list of strings (see is_signal_list)");
  elseif (! (ischar (suffix) && rows (suffix) == 1))
    error ("suffix must be a single string");
  endif

  retval = {};

  for ii = 1:length (strlist)
    retval{ii} = sprintf ("%s%s", strlist{ii}, suffix);
  endfor

endfunction