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+## Copyright (C) 2000-2012 Daniel Calvelo
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
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+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {} blkdiag (@var{A}, @var{B}, @var{C}, @dots{})
+## Build a block diagonal matrix from @var{A}, @var{B}, @var{C}, @dots{}
+## All the arguments must be numeric and are two-dimensional matrices or
+## scalars. If any argument is of type sparse, the output will also be
+## sparse.
+## @seealso{diag, horzcat, vertcat, sparse}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Author: Daniel Calvelo
+## Modified by: William Poetra Yoga Hadisoeseno
+
+function retval = blkdiag (varargin)
+
+ if (nargin < 1)
+ print_usage ();
+ endif
+
+ if (! all (cellfun ("isnumeric", varargin)))
+ error ("blkdiag: all arguments must be numeric");
+ endif
+
+ ## Note: trailing singletons are automatically (correctly) ignored.
+ if (! all (cellfun ("ndims", varargin) == 2))
+ error ("blkdiag: all arguments must be two-dimensional matrices");
+ endif
+
+ ## size is an option for cellfun, but it's a bit different from
+ ## calling size directly.
+ tmp = cell2mat (cellfun (@size, varargin', "uniformoutput", false));
+ csz = cumsum ([0 0; tmp], 1);
+
+ if (any (cellfun ("issparse", varargin)))
+ retval = sparse (csz(end,1), csz(end,2));
+ else
+ retval = zeros (csz(end,:));
+ endif
+
+ for p = 1:nargin
+ vp = varargin{p};
+ if (! isempty (vp))
+ retval((csz(p,1)+1):csz(p+1,1),(csz(p,2)+1):csz(p+1,2)) = vp;
+ endif
+ endfor
+
+endfunction
+
+## regular tests
+%!assert(blkdiag(1,ones(2),1),[1,0,0,0;0,1,1,0;0,1,1,0;0,0,0,1])
+%!assert(blkdiag([1,2],[3,4],[5,6]),[1,2,0,0,0,0;0,0,3,4,0,0;0,0,0,0,5,6])
+%!assert(blkdiag([1,2],[3;4],[5,6]),[1,2,0,0,0;0,0,3,0,0;0,0,4,0,0;0,0,0,5,6])
+%!assert(blkdiag([1,2;3,4],[5,6,7]),[1,2,0,0,0;3,4,0,0,0;0,0,5,6,7])
+## tests involving empty matrices
+%!assert(blkdiag([],[],[]),[])
+%!assert(blkdiag([],[1,2;3,4],[],5,[]),[1,2,0;3,4,0;0,0,5])
+%!assert(blkdiag(zeros(1,0,1),[1,2,3],1,0,5,zeros(0,1,1)),[0,0,0,0,0,0,0;1,2,3,0,0,0,0;0,0,0,1,0,0,0;0,0,0,0,0,0,0;0,0,0,0,0,5,0]);
+## tests involving sparse matrices
+%!assert (blkdiag (sparse([1,2;3,4]),[5,6;7,8]), sparse([1,2,0,0;3,4,0,0;0,0,5,6;0,0,7,8]))
+%!assert (blkdiag (sparse([1,2;3,4]),[5,6]), sparse([1,2,0,0;3,4,0,0;0,0,5,6]))
+# sanity checks
+%!test
+%! A = rand (round (rand (1, 2) * 10));
+%! assert (blkdiag (A), A);