## Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 John W. Eaton
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} is_scalar (@var{a})
## Return 1 if @var{a} is a scalar.  Otherwise, return 0.
## @end deftypefn

## See also: size, rows, columns, length, is_scalar, is_matrix

## Author: jwe

function retval = is_scalar (x)

  retval = 0;

  if (nargin == 1)
    if (is_matrix (x))
      [nr, nc] = size (x);
      retval = (nr == 1 && nc == 1);
    endif
  else
    usage ("is_scalar (x)");
  endif

endfunction