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## Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 John W. Eaton
##
## This file is part of Octave.
##
## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
## any later version.
##
## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
## General Public License for more details.
##
## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free
## Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA
## 02111-1307, USA.
## prepad (x, l)
##
## Prepends zeros to the vector x until it is of length l.
## prepad(x,l,c) prepends the constant c instead of zero.
##
## If length (x) > l, elements from the beginning of x are removed
## until a vector of length l is obtained.
function y = prepad (x, l, c)
## Author:
## Tony Richardson
## arichard@stark.cc.oh.us
## June 1994
if (nargin == 2)
c = 0;
elseif (nargin < 2 || nargin > 3)
usage ("prepad (x, l) or prepad (x, l, c)");
endif
if (! is_vec (x))
error ("first argument must be a vector");
elseif (! is_scal (l))
error ("second argument must be a scaler");
endif
if (l < 0)
error ("second argument must be non-negative");
endif
lx = length (x);
if (lx >= l)
y = x(lx-l+1:lx);
else
if (rows (x) > 1)
tmp = c * ones (l-lx, 1);
y = [tmp; x];
else
tmp = c * ones (1, l-lx);
y = [tmp, x];
endif
endif
endfunction