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+## Copyright (C) 1993-2012 John W. Eaton
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
+## Octave 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.
+##
+## Octave 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 Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see
+## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {} flipud (@var{x})
+## Return a copy of @var{x} with the order of the rows reversed. In
+## other words, @var{x} is flipped upside-down about a horizontal axis. For
+## example:
+##
+## @example
+## @group
+## flipud ([1, 2; 3, 4])
+## @result{} 3 4
+## 1 2
+## @end group
+## @end example
+##
+## Note that @code{flipud} only works with 2-D arrays. To flip N-D arrays
+## use @code{flipdim} instead.
+## @seealso{fliplr, flipdim, rot90, rotdim}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Author: jwe
+
+function y = flipud (x)
+
+ if (nargin != 1)
+ print_usage ();
+ endif
+
+ if (ndims (x) > 2)
+ error ("flipud: Only works with 2-d arrays");
+ endif
+
+ nr = rows (x);
+ y = x (nr:-1:1, :);
+
+endfunction
+
+%!assert((flipud ([1, 2; 3, 4]) == [3, 4; 1, 2]
+%! && flipud ([1, 2; 3, 4; 5, 6]) == [5, 6; 3, 4; 1, 2]
+%! && flipud ([1, 2, 3; 4, 5, 6]) == [4, 5, 6; 1, 2, 3]));
+
+%!error flipud ();
+
+%!error flipud (1, 2);
+