## Copyright (C) 2000 Paul Kienzle
##
## This file is part of Octave.
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} strjust (@var{s}, ["left"|"right"|"center"])
## Shift the non-blank text of @var{s} to the left, right or center of
## the string.  If @var{s} is a string array, justify each string in the
## array.  Null characters are replaced by blanks.  If no justification
## is specified, then all rows are right-justified.
## @end deftypefn

function x = strjust (x, just)

  if (nargin < 1 || nargin > 2)
    print_usage ();
  endif

  if (nargin == 1)
    just = "right";
  endif

  just = tolower (just);

  ## convert nulls to blanks
  idx = find (toascii (x) == 0);
  if (! isempty (idx))
    x(idx) = " ";
  endif

  ## For all cases, left, right and center, the algorithm is the same.
  ## Find the number of blanks at the left/right end to determine the
  ## shift, rotate the row index by using mod with that shift, then
  ## translate the shifted row index into an array index.
  [nr, nc] = size (x);
  idx = (x' != " ");
  if (strcmp (just, "right"))
    [N, hi] = max (cumsum (idx));
    shift = hi;
  elseif (strcmp (just, "left"))
    [N, lo] = max (cumsum (flipud (idx)));
    shift = (nc - lo);
  else
    [N, hi] = max (cumsum (idx));
    [N, lo] = max (cumsum (flipud (idx)));
    shift = ceil (nc - (lo-hi)/2);
  endif
  idx = rem (ones(nr,1)*[0:nc-1] + shift'*ones(1,nc), nc);
  x = x (idx*nr + [1:nr]'*ones(1,nc));

endfunction
