## Copyright (C) 2005 Michel D. Schmid  <michaelschmid@users.sourceforge.net>
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} @var{f} = isposint(@var{n})
## @code{isposint} returns true for positive integer values.
## 
## @example
##   isposint(1)   # this returns TRUE
##   isposint(0.5) # this returns FALSE
##   isposint(0)   # this also return FALSE
##   isposint(-1)  # this also returns FALSE
## @end example
##
## 
## @end deftypefn

## Author: Michel D. Schmid 

function f = isposint(n)

  ## check range of input arguments
  error(nargchk(1,1,nargin))
  
  ## check input arg
  if (length(n)>1)
    error("Input argument must not be a vector, only scalars are allowed!")
  endif

  f = 1;
  if ( (!isreal(n)) || (n<=0) || (round(n) != n) )
    f = 0;
  endif


endfunction

%!shared
%! disp("testing isposint")
%!assert(isposint(1)) # this should pass
%!assert(isposint(0.5),0) # should return zero
%!assert(isposint(-1),0) # should return zero
%!assert(isposint(-1.5),0) # should return zero
%!assert(isposint(0),0) # should return zero
%!fail("isposint([0 0])","Input argument must not be a vector, only scalars are allowed!")
%!fail("isposint('testString')","Input argument must not be a vector, only scalars are allowed!")

