% ISCHAR ISCHAR Test For Character Array (string)
% 
% Usage
% 
% The syntax for ischar is 
% 
%    x = ischar(y)
% 
% and it returns a logical 1 if the argument is a string
% and a logical 0 otherwise.

% Copyright (c) 2002-2006 Samit Basu
% Licensed under the GPL

function x = ischar(y)
  x = isa(y,'string');

