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1 ## Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 John W. Eaton |
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2 ## |
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3 ## This file is part of Octave. |
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4 ## |
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5 ## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it |
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6 ## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
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7 ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) |
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8 ## any later version. |
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9 ## |
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10 ## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but |
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11 ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
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12 ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU |
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13 ## General Public License for more details. |
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14 ## |
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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, write to the Free |
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17 ## Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA |
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18 ## 02111-1307, USA. |
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20 ## -*- texinfo -*- |
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21 ## @deftypefn {Function File} {} union (@var{x}, @var{y}) |
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22 ## Return the set of elements that are in either of the sets @var{x} and |
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23 ## @var{y}. For example, |
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24 ## |
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25 ## @example |
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26 ## @group |
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27 ## union ([ 1, 2, 4 ], [ 2, 3, 5 ]) |
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28 ## @result{} [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ] |
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29 ## @end group |
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30 ## @end example |
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31 ## |
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32 ## @seealso{create_set, intersection, and complement} |
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33 ## @end deftypefn |
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34 |
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35 ## Author: jwe |
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36 |
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37 function y = union(a,b) |
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39 if (nargin != 2) |
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40 usage ("union(a,b)"); |
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41 endif |
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42 |
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43 if(isempty(a)) |
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44 y = create_set(b); |
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45 elseif(isempty(b)) |
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46 y = create_set(a); |
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47 else |
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48 [nra, nca] = size(a); |
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49 a = reshape(a,1,nra*nca); |
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50 [nrb, ncb] = size(b); |
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51 b = reshape(b,1,nrb*ncb); |
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52 y = create_set([a, b]); |
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53 endif |
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54 |
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55 endfunction |
