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+## Copyright (C) 2007 Gorka Lertxundi
+##
+## 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{c} =} lz77enco (@var{m}, @var{alph}, @var{la}, @var{n})
+## Lempel-Ziv 77 source algorithm implementation. Where
+##
+## @table @asis
+## @item @var{c}
+## encoded message (Mx3).
+## @item @var{alph}
+## size of alphabet.
+## @item @var{la}
+## lookahead buffer size.
+## @item @var{n}
+## sliding window buffer size.
+## @end table
+## @seealso{lz77deco}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+function c = lz77enco(m, alph, la, n)
+
+ if (la <= 0 || n <= 0)
+ error("lz77enco: Lookahead buffer size and window size must be higher than 0.2");
+ endif
+ if n - la < la
+ error("lz77enco: Unreachable configuration: n - la >= la.");
+ endif
+ if alph < 2
+ error("lz77enco: Alphabet size within less than 2 symbols?");
+ endif
+ if max(m)+1 > alph
+ error("lz77enco: It is not possible to codify the message, too small alphabet size.");
+ endif
+ if rows(m) != 1
+ error("lz77enco: Message to encode must be a 1xN matrix.");
+ endif
+
+ c = zeros(1,3);
+ enco = zeros(1,3);
+ window = zeros(1,n);
+ x = length(m);
+ len = length(m);
+
+ while x ~= 0
+ ## update window
+ window(1:n-la) = window(enco(2)+2:n-la+enco(2)+1);
+ if x < la
+ window(n-la+1:n) = [m(len-x+1:len) zeros(1,la-x)];
+ else
+ window(n-la+1:n) = m(len-x+1:len-x+la);
+ endif
+
+ ## get a reference (position ,length) to longest match, and next symbol
+ enco = [0 0 0];
+ for y=(n-la):-1:1
+ z = 0;
+ while(z ~= la && (window(y+z) == window(n-la+z+1)))
+ z += 1;
+ endwhile
+
+ if enco(2) < z
+ enco(1) = y-1;
+ enco(2) = z;
+ enco(3) = window(n-la+z+1);
+ endif
+ endfor
+
+ ## encoded message
+ if x == len
+ c = enco;
+ else
+ c = [c ; enco];
+ endif
+
+ x -= enco(2)+1;
+ endwhile
+endfunction
+
+%!demo
+%! lz77enco([0 0 1 0 1 0 2 1 0 2 1 0 2 1 2 0 2 1 0 2 1 2 0 0],3,9,18)