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+## Copyright (C) 2001 Laurent Mazet
+##
+## This program 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 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later
+## version.
+##
+## This program 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
+## this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{d} = } bi2de (@var{b})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{d} = } bi2de (@var{b},@var{f})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{d} = } bi2de (@var{b},@var{p})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{d} = } bi2de (@var{b},@var{p},@var{f})
+##
+## Convert bit matrix to a vector of integers
+##
+## Each row of the matrix @var{b} is treated as a single integer represented
+## in binary form. The elements of @var{b}, must therefore be '0' or '1'
+##
+## If @var{p} is defined then it is treated as the base of the decomposition
+## and the elements of @var{b} must then lie between '0' and 'p-1'.
+##
+## The variable @var{f} defines whether the first or last element of @var{b}
+## is considered to be the most-significant. Valid values of @var{f} are
+## 'right-msb' or 'left-msb'. By default @var{f} is 'right-msb'.
+##
+## @seealso{de2bi}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+function d = bi2de (b, p, f)
+
+ switch (nargin)
+ case 1,
+ p = 2;
+ f = 'right-msb';
+ case 2,
+ if (ischar (p))
+ f = p;
+ p = 2;
+ else
+ f = 'right-msb';
+ endif
+ case 3,
+ if (ischar (p))
+ tmp = f;
+ f = p;
+ p = tmp;
+ endif
+ otherwise
+ print_usage ();
+ endswitch
+
+ if ( any (b(:) < 0) || any (b(:) != floor (b(:))) || any (b(:) > p - 1) )
+ error ("bi2de: d must only contain integers in the range [0, p-1]");
+ endif
+
+ if (strcmp (f, 'left-msb'))
+ b = b(:,size(b,2):-1:1);
+ elseif (!strcmp (f, 'right-msb'))
+ error ("bi2de: unrecognized flag");
+ endif
+
+ if (length (b) == 0)
+ d = [];
+ else
+ d = b * ( p .^ [ 0 : (columns(b)-1) ]' );
+ endif
+
+endfunction
+
+ %!shared x
+ %! x = randi ([0 1], 100, 16);
+ %!assert (bi2de (0), 0)
+ %!assert (bi2de (1), 1)
+ %!assert (bi2de (ones (1, 8)), 255)
+ %!assert (bi2de ([7 7 7 7], 8), 4095)
+ %!assert (size (bi2de (x)), [100 1])
+ %!assert (bi2de (x, "right-msb"), bi2de (x))
+ %!assert (bi2de (x, "left-msb"), bi2de (fliplr (x)))
+
+%% Test input validation
+ %!error bi2de ()
+ %!error bi2de (1, 2, 3, 4)
+ %!error bi2de (1, 2, 3)
+ %!error bi2de (1, 2, "invalid")
+ %!error bi2de (0.1)
+ %!error bi2de (-1)
+ %!error bi2de (2)
+ %!error bi2de (7, 6)