## Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 A. S. Hodel <scotte@eng.auburn.edu>
##
## This file is part of Octave.
##
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## Usage: is_duplicate_entry (x)
##
## Return non-zero if any entries in x are duplicates of one another.

## Author: A. S. Hodel <scotte@eng.auburn.edu>

function retval = is_duplicate_entry (x)

  if (nargin == 1)
    if (is_matrix (x))
      [m, n] = size (x);
      lx = m*n;
      lx1 = lx-1;
      x = sort (reshape (x, 1, lx));
      dx = x(1:lx1) - x(2:lx);
      retval = sum (dx == 0);
    else
      error ("is_duplicate_entry: expecting matrix argument");
    endif
  else
    usage ("is_duplicate_entry (x)");
  endif

endfunction
  
