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--- a/scripts/general/isempty.m
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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.
-
-## usage: isempty (x)
-##
-## Return 1 if the argument is an empty matrix.  Otherwise, return 0.
-
-## Author: jwe
-
-function retval = isempty (var)
-
-  retval = 0;
-
-  if (nargin == 1)
-    if (is_matrix (var))
-      [nr, nc] = size (var);
-      retval = (nr == 0 || nc == 0);
-    endif
-  else
-    usage ("isempty (var)");
-  endif
-
-
-endfunction