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+++ b/m-toolbox/classes/@timespan/char.m	Wed Nov 23 19:22:13 2011 +0100
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+% CHAR convert a timespan object into a string.
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%
+% DESCRIPTION: CHAR convert a timespan object into a string.
+%
+% CALL:        c = char(timespan)
+%
+% FORMAT:      c = '(start: xxx end: xxx)'
+%
+% <a href="matlab:utils.helper.displayMethodInfo('timespan', 'char')">Parameters Description</a>
+%
+% VERSION:     $Id: char.m,v 1.11 2011/04/08 08:56:37 hewitson Exp $
+%
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+function varargout = char(varargin)
+
+  %%% Check if this is a call for parameters
+  if utils.helper.isinfocall(varargin{:})
+    varargout{1} = getInfo(varargin{3});
+    return
+  end
+
+  % Collect all time-objects
+  objs = utils.helper.collect_objects(varargin(:), 'timespan');
+
+  % go through time-object
+  pstr = '';
+  for jj=1:numel(objs)
+    pstr = [pstr '(start: ' char(objs(jj).startT) ' end: ' char(objs(jj).endT) '), '];
+  end
+
+  varargout{1} = pstr(1:end-2);
+end
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%                               Local Functions                               %
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%
+% FUNCTION:    getInfo
+%
+% DESCRIPTION: Get Info Object
+%
+% HISTORY:     11-07-07 M Hewitson
+%                Creation.
+%
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+function ii = getInfo(varargin)
+  if nargin == 1 && strcmpi(varargin{1}, 'None')
+    sets = {};
+    pl   = [];
+  else
+    sets = {'Default'};
+    pl   = getDefaultPlist;
+  end
+  % Build info object
+  ii = minfo(mfilename, 'timespan', 'ltpda', utils.const.categories.output, '$Id: char.m,v 1.11 2011/04/08 08:56:37 hewitson Exp $', sets, pl);
+  ii.setModifier(false);
+end
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%
+% FUNCTION:    getDefaultPlist
+%
+% DESCRIPTION: Get Default Plist
+%
+% HISTORY:     11-07-07 M Hewitson
+%                Creation.
+%
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+function plout = getDefaultPlist()
+  persistent pl;  
+  if exist('pl', 'var')==0 || isempty(pl)
+    pl = buildplist();
+  end
+  plout = pl;  
+end
+
+function pl = buildplist()
+  pl = plist.EMPTY_PLIST;
+end
+