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doc: Update more docstrings to have one sentence summary as first line. Reviewed miscellaneous, sparse, strings in scripts directory. * scripts/miscellaneous/bzip2.m, scripts/miscellaneous/citation.m, scripts/miscellaneous/compare_versions.m, scripts/miscellaneous/computer.m, scripts/miscellaneous/debug.m, scripts/miscellaneous/dir.m, scripts/miscellaneous/edit.m, scripts/miscellaneous/error_ids.m, scripts/miscellaneous/fileattrib.m, scripts/miscellaneous/fullfile.m, scripts/miscellaneous/genvarname.m, scripts/miscellaneous/gzip.m, scripts/miscellaneous/mkoctfile.m, scripts/miscellaneous/news.m, scripts/miscellaneous/open.m, scripts/miscellaneous/parseparams.m, scripts/miscellaneous/recycle.m, scripts/miscellaneous/run.m, scripts/miscellaneous/swapbytes.m, scripts/miscellaneous/tar.m, scripts/miscellaneous/tmpnam.m, scripts/miscellaneous/unpack.m, scripts/miscellaneous/what.m, scripts/sparse/bicg.m, scripts/sparse/bicgstab.m, scripts/sparse/cgs.m, scripts/sparse/colperm.m, scripts/sparse/eigs.m, scripts/sparse/etreeplot.m, scripts/sparse/gmres.m, scripts/sparse/gplot.m, scripts/sparse/ichol.m, scripts/sparse/ilu.m, scripts/sparse/pcg.m, scripts/sparse/pcr.m, scripts/sparse/qmr.m, scripts/sparse/spaugment.m, scripts/sparse/spconvert.m, scripts/sparse/spdiags.m, scripts/sparse/spfun.m, scripts/sparse/spones.m, scripts/sparse/sprandsym.m, scripts/sparse/spstats.m, scripts/sparse/spy.m, scripts/sparse/svds.m, scripts/sparse/treelayout.m, scripts/sparse/treeplot.m, scripts/strings/base2dec.m, scripts/strings/bin2dec.m, scripts/strings/blanks.m, scripts/strings/cstrcat.m, scripts/strings/deblank.m, scripts/strings/dec2base.m, scripts/strings/dec2bin.m, scripts/strings/dec2hex.m, scripts/strings/findstr.m, scripts/strings/hex2dec.m, scripts/strings/index.m, scripts/strings/isletter.m, scripts/strings/isstrprop.m, scripts/strings/mat2str.m, scripts/strings/ostrsplit.m, scripts/strings/regexptranslate.m, scripts/strings/rindex.m, scripts/strings/str2num.m, scripts/strings/strcat.m, scripts/strings/strchr.m, scripts/strings/strjoin.m, scripts/strings/strjust.m, scripts/strings/strmatch.m, scripts/strings/strsplit.m, scripts/strings/strtok.m, scripts/strings/strtrim.m, scripts/strings/strtrunc.m, scripts/strings/substr.m, scripts/strings/untabify.m, scripts/time/datenum.m: Update more docstrings to have one sentence summary as first line.
author Rik <rik@octave.org>
date Mon, 04 May 2015 14:22:02 -0700
parents 4197fc428c7d
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## Copyright (C) 2007-2015 David Bateman
##
## 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.
##
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## General Public License for more details.
##
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## along with Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, see
## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} swapbytes (@var{x})
## Swap the byte order on values, converting from little endian to big endian
## and vice versa.
##
## For example:
##
## @example
## @group
## swapbytes (uint16 (1:4))
## @result{} [   256   512   768  1024]
## @end group
## @end example
##
## @seealso{typecast, cast}
## @end deftypefn

function y = swapbytes (x)

  if (nargin != 1)
    print_usage ();
  endif

  cls = class (x);
  if (strcmp (cls, "int8") || strcmp (cls, "uint8") || isempty (x))
    y = x;
  else
    if (strcmp (cls, "int16") || strcmp (cls, "uint16"))
      nb = 2;
    elseif (strcmp (cls, "single")
            || strcmp (cls, "int32") || strcmp (cls, "uint32"))
      nb = 4;
    elseif (strcmp (cls, "double")
            || strcmp (cls, "int64") || strcmp (cls, "uint64"))
      nb = 8;
    else
      error ("swapbytes: invalid object of class '%s'", cls);
    endif
    y = reshape (typecast (reshape (typecast (x(:), "uint8"), nb, numel (x))
                           ([nb : -1 : 1], :) (:), cls), size (x));
  endif

endfunction


%!assert (swapbytes (uint16 (1:4)), uint16 ([256 512 768 1024]))
%!test
%! assert (swapbytes (swapbytes (pi)), pi);
%! assert (swapbytes (swapbytes (single (pi))), single (pi));

## Test input validation
%!error swapbytes ()
%!error swapbytes (1, 2)
%!error <invalid object of class 'cell'> swapbytes ({1})