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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.
-
- ## -*- texinfo -*-
- ## @deftypefn {Function File} {} int2str (@var{n})
- ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} num2str (@var{x})
- ## Convert a number to a string. These functions are not very flexible,
- ## but are provided for compatibility with @sc{Matlab}. For better control
- ## over the results, use @code{sprintf} (@pxref{Formatted Output}).
- ## @end deftypefn
-
- ## See also: sprintf, num2str
-
- ## Author: jwe
-
- function retval = int2str (x)
-
- ## XXX FIXME XXX -- this will fail for very large values.
-
- if (nargin == 1)
- if (rows (x) == 1 && columns (x) == 1)
- retval = sprintf ("%d", round (x));
- else
- error ("int2str: expecting scalar argument");
- endif
- else
- usage ("int2str (x)");
- endif
-
- endfunction
-