🚀 go-pugleaf

I wrote:
>
>In article <maurer.727751047@nova.Stanford.EDU>, Michael Maurer <maurer@nova.stanford.edu> writes:
>>
>>Hoping to start a trend, here is an unsolicited matlab m-file.
>>MAT2STR is like NUM2STR, but operates on matrix input.
>>Suggested improvements are welcome.
>
>Okay, here's an improvement, at least it should be since 1) it doesn't use
>for loops in matlab, and 2) has far fewer function calls.  But I didn't
>benchmark it.  Whenever I see those for loops I like to find ways to get
>rid of them with matrix operations.
>
>function T=mat2str(X,nc)
>%MAT2STR
>%     T=mat2str(X) converts matrix X into string format T, using sprintf
>%     to convert each element of X.
>%     T=mat2str(X,nc) uses nc characters for each column, instead of
>%     default 12.
>
>%     originally by Michael Maurer, 10 Jan 1992
>%     modified by Ed Ellert, 25 Jan, 1993
>
>if nargin<2,
>   nc=12;
>end
>
>[mx,nx]=size(X);
>T = reshape([setstr(X+'0'); ' '*ones((nc-1)*mx, nx)], mx, nx*nc);

Oops!  Walking to work this morning it occurred to me that this will only
work for single digits.  It was fun though :^)

Ed Ellert
ellert@nu1.uh.cwru.edu