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+## Copyright (C) 2000-2012 Paul Kienzle
+## Copyright (C) 2008 Jaroslav Hajek
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
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+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {} repmat (@var{A}, @var{m})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} repmat (@var{A}, @var{m}, @var{n})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} repmat (@var{A}, @var{m}, @var{n}, @var{p}, @dots{})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} repmat (@var{A}, [@var{m} @var{n}])
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} repmat (@var{A}, [@var{m} @var{n} @var{p} @dots{}])
+## Form a block matrix of size @var{m} by @var{n}, with a copy of matrix
+## @var{A} as each element. If @var{n} is not specified, form an
+## @var{m} by @var{m} block matrix.
+## @seealso{repelems}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Author: Paul Kienzle <pkienzle@kienzle.powernet.co.uk>
+## Created: July 2000
+
+function x = repmat (A, m, n)
+
+ if (nargin < 2 || nargin > 3)
+ print_usage ();
+ endif
+
+ if (nargin == 3)
+ if (! (isscalar (m) && isscalar (n)))
+ error ("repmat: with 3 arguments M and N must be scalar");
+ endif
+ idx = [m, n];
+ else
+ if (isscalar (m))
+ idx = [m, m];
+ n = m;
+ elseif (isvector (m) && length (m) > 1)
+ ## Ensure that we have a row vector
+ idx = m(:).';
+ else
+ error ("repmat: invalid dimensional argument");
+ endif
+ endif
+
+ if (all (idx < 0))
+ error ("repmat: invalid dimensions");
+ else
+ idx = max (idx, 0);
+ endif
+
+ if (numel (A) == 1)
+ ## optimize the scalar fill case.
+ if (any (idx == 0))
+ x = resize (A, idx);
+ else
+ x(1:prod (idx)) = A;
+ x = reshape (x, idx);
+ endif
+ elseif (ndims (A) == 2 && length (idx) < 3)
+ if (issparse (A))
+ x = kron (ones (idx), A);
+ else
+ ## indexing is now faster, so we use it rather than kron.
+ m = rows (A); n = columns (A);
+ p = idx(1); q = idx(2);
+ x = reshape (A, m, 1, n, 1);
+ x = x(:, ones (1, p), :, ones (1, q));
+ x = reshape (x, m*p, n*q);
+ endif
+ else
+ aidx = size (A);
+ ## ensure matching size
+ idx(end+1:length (aidx)) = 1;
+ aidx(end+1:length (idx)) = 1;
+ ## create subscript array
+ cidx = cell (2, length (aidx));
+ for i = 1:length (aidx)
+ cidx{1,i} = ':';
+ cidx{2,i} = ones (1, idx (i));
+ endfor
+ aaidx = aidx;
+ # add singleton dims
+ aaidx(2,:) = 1;
+ A = reshape (A, aaidx(:));
+ x = reshape (A (cidx{:}), idx .* aidx);
+ endif
+
+endfunction
+
+# Test various methods of providing size parameters
+%!shared x
+%! x = [1 2;3 4];
+%!assert(repmat(x, [1 1]), repmat(x, 1));
+%!assert(repmat(x, [3 3]), repmat(x, 3));
+%!assert(repmat(x, [1 1]), repmat(x, 1, 1));
+%!assert(repmat(x, [1 3]), repmat(x, 1, 3));
+%!assert(repmat(x, [3 1]), repmat(x, 3, 1));
+%!assert(repmat(x, [3 3]), repmat(x, 3, 3));
+
+# Tests for numel==1 case:
+%!shared x, r
+%! x = [ 65 ];
+%! r = kron(ones(2,2), x);
+%!assert(r, repmat(x, [2 2]));
+%!assert(char(r), repmat(char(x), [2 2]));
+%!assert(int8(r), repmat(int8(x), [2 2]));
+
+# Tests for ndims==2 case:
+%!shared x, r
+%! x = [ 65 66 67 ];
+%! r = kron(ones(2,2), x);
+%!assert(r, repmat(x, [2 2]));
+%!assert(char(r), repmat(char(x), [2 2]));
+%!assert(int8(r), repmat(int8(x), [2 2]));
+
+# Tests for dim>2 case:
+%!shared x, r
+%! x = [ 65 66 67 ];
+%! r = kron(ones(2,2), x);
+%! r(:,:,2) = r(:,:,1);
+%!assert(r, repmat(x, [2 2 2]));
+%!assert(char(r), repmat(char(x), [2 2 2]));
+%!assert(int8(r), repmat(int8(x), [2 2 2]));
+
+# Test that sparsity is kept
+%!assert(sparse(4,4), repmat(sparse(2,2),[2 2]));
+
+
+%!assert (size (repmat (".", -1, 1)), [0, 1]);
+%!assert (size (repmat (".", 1, -1)), [1, 0]);
+%!error (size (repmat (".", -1, -1)));
+
+%!assert (size (repmat (1, [1, 0])), [1, 0]);
+%!assert (size (repmat (1, [5, 0])), [5, 0]);
+%!assert (size (repmat (1, [0, 1])), [0, 1]);
+%!assert (size (repmat (1, [0, 5])), [0, 5]);
+
+%!shared x
+%! x = struct ("a", [], "b", []);
+%!assert (size (repmat (x, [1, 0])), [1, 0]);
+%!assert (size (repmat (x, [5, 0])), [5, 0]);
+%!assert (size (repmat (x, [0, 1])), [0, 1]);
+%!assert (size (repmat (x, [0, 5])), [0, 5]);
+
+%!assert (size (repmat ({1}, [1, 0])), [1, 0]);
+%!assert (size (repmat ({1}, [5, 0])), [5, 0]);
+%!assert (size (repmat ({1}, [0, 1])), [0, 1]);
+%!assert (size (repmat ({1}, [0, 5])), [0, 5]);
+