# HG changeset patch
# User Nicholas R. Jankowski <jankowski.nicholas@gmail.com>
# Date 1641407332 18000
# Node ID 0cb3f48da9dae99307e589333a0bbaa88beac7c0
# Parent  bcaa4c5f592898aaab43167db5d1d47437f1b1c8
doc: clarifies issorted only operates on vectors (bug #61765)

* libinterp/corefcn/data.cc (issorted): updates docstring to indicate that
issorted currently only works on vectors, or on matrices with the "rows" option.

diff -r bcaa4c5f5928 -r 0cb3f48da9da libinterp/corefcn/data.cc
--- a/libinterp/corefcn/data.cc	Wed Jan 05 15:57:06 2022 +0900
+++ b/libinterp/corefcn/data.cc	Wed Jan 05 13:28:52 2022 -0500
@@ -7330,14 +7330,14 @@
 @deftypefn  {} {@var{tf} =} issorted (@var{a})
 @deftypefnx {} {@var{tf} =} issorted (@var{a}, @var{mode})
 @deftypefnx {} {@var{tf} =} issorted (@var{a}, "rows", @var{mode})
-Return true if the array is sorted according to @var{mode}, which may be either
-@qcode{"ascend"}, @qcode{"descend"}, or @qcode{"either"}.
+Return true if the vector @var{a} is sorted according to @var{mode}, which
+may be either @qcode{"ascend"}, @qcode{"descend"}, or @qcode{"either"}.
 
 By default, @var{mode} is @qcode{"ascend"}.  NaNs are treated in the same
 manner as @code{sort}.
 
-If the optional argument @qcode{"rows"} is supplied, check whether the array is
-sorted by rows as output by the function @code{sortrows} (with no options).
+If the optional argument @qcode{"rows"} is supplied, check whether the matrix
+is sorted by rows as output by the function @code{sortrows} (with no options).
 
 This function does not support sparse matrices.
 @seealso{sort, sortrows}