## Copyright (C) 1996-2012 John W. Eaton
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} isvector (@var{x})
## Return true if @var{x} is a vector.  A vector is a 2-D array
## where one of the dimensions is equal to 1.  As a consequence a
## 1x1 array, or scalar, is also a vector.
## @seealso{isscalar, ismatrix, size, rows, columns, length}
## @end deftypefn

## Author: jwe

function retval = isvector (x)

  if (nargin != 1)
    print_usage ();
  endif

  sz = size (x);
  retval = (ndims (x) == 2 && (sz(1) == 1 || sz(2) == 1));

endfunction


%!assert (isvector (1))
%!assert (isvector ([1; 2; 3]))
%!assert (isvector ([]), false)
%!assert (isvector ([1, 2; 3, 4]), false)

%!assert (isvector ("t"))
%!assert (isvector ("test"))
%!assert (isvector (["test"; "ing"]), false)

%!test
%! s.a = 1;
%! assert (isvector (s));

%% Test input validation
%!error isvector ()
%!error isvector ([1, 2], 2)

