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+## Copyright (C) 1995-2012 Kurt Hornik
+## Copyright (C) 2009 VZLU Prague
+## Copyright (C) 2009 Jaroslav Hajek
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
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+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {[@var{err}, @var{y1}, @dots{}] =} common_size (@var{x1}, @dots{})
+## Determine if all input arguments are either scalar or of common
+## size. If so, @var{err} is zero, and @var{yi} is a matrix of the
+## common size with all entries equal to @var{xi} if this is a scalar or
+## @var{xi} otherwise. If the inputs cannot be brought to a common size,
+## @var{err} is 1, and @var{yi} is @var{xi}. For example:
+##
+## @example
+## @group
+## [errorcode, a, b] = common_size ([1 2; 3 4], 5)
+## @result{} errorcode = 0
+## @result{} a = [ 1, 2; 3, 4 ]
+## @result{} b = [ 5, 5; 5, 5 ]
+## @end group
+## @end example
+##
+## @noindent
+## This is useful for implementing functions where arguments can either
+## be scalars or of common size.
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at>
+## Created: 15 October 1994
+## Adapted-By: jwe
+## Optimized-By: Jaroslav Hajek
+
+function [errorcode, varargout] = common_size (varargin)
+
+ if (nargin < 2)
+ error ("common_size: only makes sense if nargin >= 2");
+ endif
+
+ ## Find scalar args.
+ nscal = cellfun ("numel", varargin) != 1;
+
+ i = find (nscal, 1);
+
+ if (isempty (i))
+ errorcode = 0;
+ varargout = varargin;
+ else
+ match = cellfun ("size_equal", varargin, varargin(i));
+ if (any (nscal &! match))
+ errorcode = 1;
+ varargout = varargin;
+ else
+ errorcode = 0;
+ if (nargout > 1)
+ scal = !nscal;
+ varargout = varargin;
+ if (any (nscal))
+ dims = size (varargin{find (nscal, 1)});
+ subs = arrayfun (@ones, 1, dims, "uniformoutput", false);
+ varargout(scal) = cellindexmat (varargin(scal), subs{:});
+ endif
+ endif
+ endif
+ endif
+endfunction
+
+%!error common_size ();
+
+%!test
+%! m = [1,2;3,4];
+%! [err, a, b, c] = common_size (m, 3, 5);
+%! assert (err, 0);
+%! assert (a, m);
+%! assert (b, [3,3;3,3]);
+%! assert (c, [5,5;5,5]);