## Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 A. S. Hodel <scotte@eng.auburn.edu>
##
## This file is part of Octave.
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} is_duplicate_entry (@var{x})
## Return non-zero if any entries in @var{x} are duplicates of one
## another.
## @end deftypefn

## Author: A. S. Hodel <scotte@eng.auburn.edu>

function retval = is_duplicate_entry (x)

  if (nargin == 1)
    if (ismatrix (x))
      lx = numel (x);
      lx1 = lx-1;
      x = sort (reshape (x, 1, lx));
      dx = x(1:lx1) - x(2:lx);
      retval = sum (dx == 0);
    else
      error ("is_duplicate_entry: expecting matrix argument");
    endif
  else
    print_usage ();
  endif

endfunction

