function outstr = vecstr(instr,addon)
% vecstr: creates a string vector from a string matrix.
%
% USAGE:
%
%       outstr = vecstr(instr,addon)
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% REQUIRED INPUT:  instr (string matrix) of dimension nxk.
%
% OPTIONAL INPUT:  addon (string vector) with possible characters to use for separating the
%                        rows in instr. Default is an empty string.
%
% REQUIRED OUTPUT: outstr (string vector) with 1 row containg all the rows of instr.
%
%
%                       Written by: Anders Warne
%                                   New Area Wide Model Project
%                                   DG-R/EMO
%                                   European Central Bank (ECB)
%                                   Email: anders.warne@ecb.europa.eu
%                                   Copyright © 2006-2009 European Central Bank.
%
%                       First version: August 18, 2006.
%                        This version: January 22, 2009.
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% LICENSE INFORMATION:
%
%      YADA 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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%      This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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%      MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
%      GNU General Public License for more details.
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%
%      YADA is released under the GNU General Public License, Version 3,
%      29 June 2007 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. The current release of
%      the program was last modified by the ECB on the "This version" date
%      above.
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% CHANGELOG:
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% * 07-11-2007: Updated the documentation.
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% * 23-05-2008: Updated the documentation.
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% * 22-01-2009: Updated the documentation.
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if nargin<2;
   addon = '';
end;
outstr = '';
if ischar(instr)==1;
   [n k] = size(instr);
   for i=1:n;
      outstr = [outstr StringTrim(instr(i,:)) addon];
   end;
   outstr = StringTrim(outstr);
end;

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% end of vecstr.m
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