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+## Copyright (C) 2006 Muthiah Annamalai <muthiah.annamalai@uta.edu>
+## Copyright (C) 2011 Ferran Mesas Garcia <ferran.mesas01@gmail.com>
+##
+## 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{sig} =} huffmandeco (@var{hcode}, @var{dict})
+## Decode signal encoded by @code{huffmanenco}.
+##
+## This function uses a dict built from the
+## @code{huffmandict} and uses it to decode a signal list into a huffman
+## list. A restriction is that @var{hcode} is expected to be a binary code
+##
+## The returned @var{sig} set that strictly belongs in the range @code{[1,N]}
+## with @code{N = length(@var{dict})}. Also @var{dict} can only be from the
+## @code{huffmandict} routine. Whenever decoding fails, those signal values a
+## re indicated by @code{-1}, and we successively try to restart decoding
+## from the next bit that hasn't failed in decoding, ad-infinitum. An example
+## of the use of @code{huffmandeco} is:
+##
+## @example
+## @group
+## hd = huffmandict (1:4, [0.5 0.25 0.15 0.10]);
+## hcode = huffmanenco (1:4, hd);
+## back = huffmandeco (hcode, hd)
+## @result{} [1 2 3 4]
+## @end group
+## @end example
+## @seealso{huffmandict, huffmanenco}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+function symbols = huffmandeco (hcode, dict)
+
+ if (nargin != 2)
+ print_usage();
+ elseif (!all((hcode == 1) + (hcode == 0)) || !isvector(hcode))
+ error ("first argument must be a binary array");
+ elseif (!strcmp (class (dict), "cell"))
+ error ("second argument must be of the class dict (from `huffmandict')");
+ end
+
+ ## Convert the Huffman Dictionary to a Huffman Tree represented by
+ ## an array.
+ tree = dict2tree(dict);
+
+ ## Traverse the tree and store the symbols.
+ symbols = [];
+ pointer = 1; # a pointer to a node of the tree.
+ for i = 1:length (hcode);
+ if (tree(pointer) != -1)
+ symbols = [symbols, tree(pointer)];
+ pointer = 1;
+ endif
+ pointer = 2 * pointer + hcode(i);
+ endfor
+
+ ## Check if decodification was successful
+ if (tree(pointer) == -1)
+ warning ("could not decode last symbol.")
+ endif
+ symbols = [symbols, tree(pointer)];
+endfunction
+
+function tree = dict2tree (dict)
+ L = length(dict);
+ lengths = zeros(1,L);
+
+ ## the depth of the tree is limited by the maximum word length.
+ for i = 1:L
+ lengths(i) = length (dict{i});
+ endfor
+ m = max (lengths);
+
+ tree = zeros(1,2^(m+1)-1)-1;
+
+ for i = 1:L
+ pointer = 1;
+ word = dict{i};
+ for bit = word
+ pointer = 2 * pointer + bit;
+ endfor
+ tree(pointer) = i;
+ endfor
+endfunction
+
+%!assert(huffmandeco(huffmanenco(1:4, huffmandict(1:4,[0.5 0.25 0.15 0.10])), huffmandict(1:4,[0.5 0.25 0.15 0.10])), [1:4],0)
+%!assert(huffmandeco(huffmanenco([1:100 100:-1:1], huffmandict(1:100,ones(1,100)/100)), huffmandict(1:100,ones(1,100)/100)), [1:100 100:-1:1],0)
+%!assert(huffmandeco([huffmanenco(1:4, huffmandict(1:4,[0.5 0.25 0.15 0.10])) 0], huffmandict(1:4,[0.5 0.25 0.15 0.10])), [1:4 -1],0)
+%!fail('huffmandeco([huffmanenco(1:4, huffmandict(1:4,[0.5 0.25 0.15 0.10])) 0], huffmandict(1:4,[0.5 0.25 0.15 0.10]))','warning')
+%!fail('huffmandeco(''this is not a code'',huffmandict(1:4,[0.5 0.25 0.15 0.10]))')
+%!fail('huffmandeco([1 0 1 0],''this is not a dictionary'')')