## Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 John W. Eaton
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} columns (@var{a})
## Return the number of columns of @var{a}.
## @end deftypefn

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

## Author: jwe

function nc = columns (x)

  if (nargin != 1)
    usage ("columns (x)");
  endif

  [nr, nc] = size (x);

endfunction