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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {} {} int2str (@var{n})
## Convert an integer (or array of integers) to a string (or a character
## array).
##
## @example
## @group
## int2str (123)
##      @result{} "123"
##
## s = int2str ([1, 2, 3; 4, 5, 6])
##      @result{} s =
##         1  2  3
##         4  5  6
##
## whos s
##      @result{}
##       Attr Name        Size                     Bytes  Class
##       ==== ====        ====                     =====  =====
##            s           2x7                         14  char
## @end group
## @end example
##
## This function is not very flexible.  For better control over the
## results, use @code{sprintf} (@pxref{Formatted Output}).
##
## Programming Notes:
##
## Non-integers are rounded to integers before display.  Only the real part
## of complex numbers is displayed.
##
## @seealso{sprintf, num2str, mat2str}
## @end deftypefn

## Author: jwe

function retval = int2str (n)

  if (nargin != 1)
    print_usage ();
  elseif (! (isnumeric (n) || islogical (n) || ischar (n)))
    error ("int2str: N must be a numeric, logical, or character array");
  endif

  if (ischar (n))
    retval = n;
    return;
  elseif (isempty (n))
    retval = "";
    return;
  endif

  n = round (real (n));

  ## Set up a suitable format string while ignoring Inf/NaN entries
  nan_inf = ! isfinite (n(:));
  ndgt = floor (log10 (max (abs (n(! nan_inf)))));
  if (isempty (ndgt) || ndgt == -Inf)
    ndgt = 0;  # All Inf or all zero array
  endif

  ndgt += 3;
  if (any (nan_inf))
    ndgt = max (ndgt, 5);
  endif

  ## FIXME: Integers should be masked to show only 16 significant digits
  fmt = sprintf ("%%%d.0f", ndgt);

  nd = ndims (n);
  nc = columns (n) * (nd - 1);    # ND-arrays are expanded in columns
  n  = permute (n, [2, 3:nd, 1]);
  fmt = [repmat(fmt, 1, nc), "\n"];
  strtmp = sprintf (fmt, n);
  retval = strtrim (char (ostrsplit (strtmp, "\n", true)));

endfunction


%!assert (int2str (123), "123")
%!assert (int2str (-123), "-123")
%!assert (int2str (1.2), "1")
%!assert (int2str (1.6), "2")
%!assert (int2str ([1, 2, 3; 4, 5, 6]), ["1  2  3";"4  5  6"])
%!assert (int2str ([]), "")

%!error int2str ()
%!error int2str (1, 2)
%!error <N must be a numeric> int2str ({1})