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- ## Copyright (C) 1995,1998 Auburn University. All Rights Reserved.
- ##
- ## 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 USA.
-
- ## -*- texinfo -*-
- ## @deftypefn {Function File } { @var{y} =} polyout ( @var{c}@{, @var{x}@})
- ## write formatted polynomial
- ## @example
- ## c(x) = c(1) * x^n + ... + c(n) x + c(n+1)
- ## @end example
- ## to string @var{y} or to the screen (if @var{y} is omitted)
- ## @var{x} defaults to the string @code{"s"}
- ## @end deftypefn
-
- ## See also: polyval, polyvalm, poly, roots, conv, deconv, residue,
- ## filter, polyderiv, polyinteg
-
- function y = polyout (c, x)
-
- ## Written by A. Scottedward Hodel (scotte@eng.auburn.edu) May 1995)
- ## Nov 1998: Correctly handles complex coefficients
-
- if (nargin < 1 ) || (nargin > 2) || (nargout < 0 ) || (nargout > 1)
- usage("[y = ] polyout(c,[x])");
- endif
-
- if (!is_vector(c))
- error("polyout: first argument must be a vector");
- endif
-
- if (nargin == 1)
- x = 's';
- elseif( ! isstr(x) )
- error("polyout: second argument must be a string");
- endif
-
- n = length(c);
- if(n > 0)
- n1 = n+1;
-
- if( imag(c(1)) ) tmp = com2str(c(1))
- else tmp = num2str(c(1)); endif
-
- for ii=2:n
- if(real(c(ii)) < 0) ns = ' - '; c(ii) = -c(ii);
- else ns = ' + '; endif
-
- if( imag(c(ii)) ) nstr = sprintf("(%s)",com2str(c(ii)) );
- else nstr = num2str(c(ii)); endif
-
- tmp = sprintf("%s*%s^%d%s%s",tmp,x,n1-ii,ns,nstr);
-
- endfor
- else
- tmp = " ";
- endif
-
- if(nargout == 0)
- disp(tmp)
- else
- y = tmp;
- endif
-
- endfunction
-