## Copyright (C) 2004 David Bateman & Andy Adler
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{p} =} colperm (@var{s})
## Returns the column permutations such that the columns of
## @code{@var{s} (:, @var{p})} are ordered in terms of increase number
## of non-zero elements. If @var{s} is symmetric, then @var{p} is chosen
## such that @code{@var{s} (@var{p}, @var{p})} orders the rows and
## columns with increasing number of non zeros elements.
## @end deftypefn

function p = colperm (s)
  [i, j] = spfind (s);
  idx = find (diff ([j; Inf]) != 0);
  [dummy, p] = sort (idx - [0; idx(1:(end-1))]);
endfunction