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date | Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:46:02 +0000 |
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## Copyright (C) 2007 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 2, 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, write to the Free ## Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA ## 02110-1301, USA. ## -*- texinfo -*- ## @deftypefn {Function File} {} cast (@var{val}, @var{type}) ## Convert @var{val} to data type @var{type}. ## @seealso{int8, uint8, int16, uint16, int32, uint32, int64, uint64, double} ## @end deftypefn ## Author: jwe function retval = cast (val, typ) if (nargin == 2) if (ischar (typ)) if (any (strcmp (typ, {"int8"; "uint8"; "int16"; "uint16"; "int32"; "uint32"; "int64"; "uint64"; "double"; "single"}))) retval = feval (typ, val); else error ("cast: type name `%s' is not a built-in type", typ); endif else error ("cast: expecting type name as second argument"); endif else print_usage (); endif endfunction