## Copyright (C) 2014 John W. Eaton
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Mapping Function} {} finite (@var{x})
##
## @code{finite} is deprecated and will be removed in Octave version 4.6.
## Please use @code{isfinite} in all new code.
##
## Return a logical array which is true where the elements of @var{x} are
## finite values and false where they are not.
## For example:
## 
## @example
## @group
## finite ([13, Inf, NA, NaN])
##      @result{} [ 1, 0, 0, 0 ]
## @end group
## @end example
## @seealso{isfinite, isinf, isnan, isna}
## @end deftypefn

## Deprecated in version 4.2

function retval = finite (varargin)

  persistent warned = false;
  if (! warned)
    warned = true;
    warning ("Octave:deprecated-function",
             "finite is obsolete and will be removed from a future version of Octave, please use isfinite instead");
  endif

  retval = isfinite (varargin{:});

endfunction

