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Improve docstrings for all isXXX functions. Use 'return true' rather than 'return 1'. Improve the cross-referencing through seealso links.
author Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com>
date Fri, 31 Dec 2010 13:20:44 -0800
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1 ## Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 John W. Eaton
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3 ## This file is part of Octave.
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15 ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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16 ## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see
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17 ## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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19 ## -*- texinfo -*-
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20 ## @deftypefn {Function File} {} isvector (@var{x})
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21 ## Return true if @var{x} is a vector. A vector is a 2-D array
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22 ## where one of the dimensions is equal to 1. As a consequence a
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23 ## 1x1 array, or scalar, is also a vector.
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24 ## @seealso{isscalar, ismatrix, size, rows, columns, length}
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25 ## @end deftypefn
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27 ## Author: jwe
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29 function retval = isvector (x)
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31 retval = 0;
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33 if (nargin == 1)
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34 sz = size (x);
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35 retval = (ndims (x) == 2 && (sz(1) == 1 || sz(2) == 1));
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36 else
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37 print_usage ();
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38 endif
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40 endfunction
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42 %!assert(isvector (1));
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44 %!assert(isvector ([1; 2; 3]));
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46 %!assert(!(isvector ([])));
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48 %!assert(!(isvector ([1, 2; 3, 4])));
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50 %!test
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51 %! warn_str_to_num = 0;
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52 %! assert((isvector ("t")));
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54 %!test
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55 %! warn_str_to_num = 0;
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56 %! assert((isvector ("test")));
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58 %!assert(!(isvector (["test"; "ing"])));
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60 %!test
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61 %! s.a = 1;
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62 %! assert((isvector (s)));
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64 %!error isvector ();
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66 %!error isvector ([1, 2], 2);
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