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+## Copyright (C) 2000-2012 Paul Kienzle
+## Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Jaroslav Hajek
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
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+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {} intersect (@var{a}, @var{b})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {[@var{c}, @var{ia}, @var{ib}] =} intersect (@var{a}, @var{b})
+##
+## Return the elements in both @var{a} and @var{b}, sorted in ascending
+## order. If @var{a} and @var{b} are both column vectors return a column
+## vector, otherwise return a row vector.
+## @var{a}, @var{b} may be cell arrays of string(s).
+##
+## Return index vectors @var{ia} and @var{ib} such that @code{a(ia)==c} and
+## @code{b(ib)==c}.
+##
+## @end deftypefn
+## @seealso{unique, union, setxor, setdiff, ismember}
+
+function [c, ia, ib] = intersect (a, b, varargin)
+
+ if (nargin < 2 || nargin > 3)
+ print_usage ();
+ endif
+
+ [a, b] = validargs ("intersect", a, b, varargin{:});
+
+ if (isempty (a) || isempty (b))
+ c = ia = ib = [];
+ else
+ ## form a and b into sets
+ if (nargout > 1)
+ [a, ja] = unique (a, varargin{:});
+ [b, jb] = unique (b, varargin{:});
+ else
+ a = unique (a, varargin{:});
+ b = unique (b, varargin{:});
+ endif
+
+ if (nargin > 2)
+ c = [a; b];
+ [c, ic] = sortrows (c);
+ ii = find (all (c(1:end-1,:) == c(2:end,:), 2));
+ c = c(ii,:);
+ len_a = rows (a);
+ else
+ c = [a(:); b(:)];
+ [c, ic] = sort (c); ## [a(:);b(:)](ic) == c
+ if (iscellstr (c))
+ ii = find (strcmp (c(1:end-1), c(2:end)));
+ else
+ ii = find (c(1:end-1) == c(2:end));
+ endif
+ c = c(ii);
+ len_a = length (a);
+ endif
+
+ if (nargout > 1)
+ ia = ja(ic(ii)); ## a(ia) == c
+ ib = jb(ic(ii+1) - len_a); ## b(ib) == c
+ endif
+
+ if (nargin == 2 && (size (b, 1) == 1 || size (a, 1) == 1))
+ c = c.';
+ endif
+ endif
+
+endfunction
+
+
+%!# Test the routine for index vectors ia and ib
+%!test
+%! a = [3 2 4 5 7 6 5 1 0 13 13];
+%! b = [3 5 12 1 1 7];
+%! [c,ia,ib] = intersect(a,b);
+%! assert(c,[1 3 5 7]);
+%! assert(ia,[8 1 7 5]);
+%! assert(ib,[5 1 2 6]);
+%! assert(a(ia),c);
+%! assert(b(ib),c);
+%!test
+%! a = [1,1,2;1,4,5;2,1,7];
+%! b = [1,4,5;2,3,4;1,1,2;9,8,7];
+%! [c,ia,ib] = intersect(a,b,'rows');
+%! assert(c,[1,1,2;1,4,5]);
+%! assert(ia,[1;2]);
+%! assert(ib,[3;1]);
+%! assert(a(ia,:),c);
+%! assert(b(ib,:),c);
+%!test
+%! a = [1 1 1 2 2 2];
+%! b = [1 2 3 4 5 6];
+%! c = intersect(a,b);
+%! assert(c, [1,2]);
+%!test
+%! a = [1 2 3 4; 5 6 7 8; 9 10 11 12];
+%! [b, ia, ib] = intersect(a, a, "rows");
+%! assert(b, a);
+%! assert(ia, [1:3]');
+%! assert(ib, [1:3]');