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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_vector (x))
- error ("first argument must be a vector");
- elseif (! is_scalar (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
-