/*

Copyright (C) 2003 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
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*/

#if !defined (octave_charNDArray_h)
#define octave_charNDArray_h 1

#if defined (__GNUG__) && defined (USE_PRAGMA_INTERFACE_IMPLEMENTATION)
#pragma interface
#endif

#include "MArrayN.h"
#include "chMatrix.h"

#include "mx-defs.h"
#include "mx-op-defs.h"

#include "data-conv.h"
#include "mach-info.h"

class
charNDArray : public MArrayN<char>
{
public:
  
  charNDArray (void) : MArrayN<char> () { }

  charNDArray (dim_vector& dims) : MArrayN<char> (dims) { }

  charNDArray (dim_vector& dims, char val) : MArrayN<char> (dims, val) { }
  
  charNDArray (const charNDArray& a) : MArrayN<char> (a) { }

  charNDArray (const charMatrix& a) : MArrayN<char> (a) { }

  charNDArray (char c) : MArrayN<char> (charMatrix (c)) { }

  charNDArray (const char *s) : MArrayN<char> (charMatrix (s)) { }

  charNDArray (const std::string& s) : MArrayN<char> (charMatrix (s)) { }

  charNDArray (const string_vector& s) : MArrayN<char> (charMatrix (s)) { }

  charNDArray (const ArrayN<char>& a) : MArrayN<char> (a) { }

  charNDArray& operator = (const charNDArray& a)
    {
      MArrayN<char>::operator = (a);
      return *this;
    }

  // XXX FIXME XXX -- this is not quite the right thing.

  boolMatrix all (int dim = -1) const;
  boolMatrix any (int dim = -1) const;

  charMatrix matrix_value (void) const;

  // i/o

  // friend std::ostream& operator << (std::ostream& os, const charNDArray& a);
  // friend std::istream& operator >> (std::istream& is, charNDArray& a);

  static char resize_fill_value (void) { return '\0'; }

private:

  charNDArray (char *d, dim_vector& dims) : MArrayN<char> (d, dims) { }
};

MARRAY_FORWARD_DEFS (MArrayN, charNDArray, char)

#endif

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