### Copyright (C) 1996 John W. Eaton
###
### This file is part of Octave.
###
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## usage: int2str (x)
##
## Round x to the nearest integer and format as a string.
##
## See also: sprintf, num2str 

function retval = int2str (x)

  ## XXX FIXME XXX -- this will fail for very large values.

  if (nargin == 1)
    if (rows (x) == 1 && columns (x) == 1)
      retval = sprintf ("%d", round (x));
    else
      error ("int2str: expecting scalar argument");
    endif
  else
    usage ("int2str (x)");
  endif

endfunction