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<MAN>
  <LANGUAGE>eng</LANGUAGE>
  <TITLE>asciimat</TITLE>
  <TYPE>M2SCI Function</TYPE>
  <DATE>April 2004</DATE>
  <SHORT_DESCRIPTION name="asciimat">string matrix ascii conversions</SHORT_DESCRIPTION>
  <CALLING_SEQUENCE>
    <CALLING_SEQUENCE_ITEM>a=asciimat(txt)  </CALLING_SEQUENCE_ITEM>
    <CALLING_SEQUENCE_ITEM>txt=asciimat(a)  </CALLING_SEQUENCE_ITEM>
  </CALLING_SEQUENCE>
  <PARAM>
    <PARAM_INDENT>
      <PARAM_ITEM>
        <PARAM_NAME>txt</PARAM_NAME>
        <PARAM_DESCRIPTION>
          <SP>: character string or matrix of strings.</SP>
        </PARAM_DESCRIPTION>
      </PARAM_ITEM>
      <PARAM_ITEM>
        <PARAM_NAME>a</PARAM_NAME>
        <PARAM_DESCRIPTION>
          <SP>: vector or matrix of integer ASCII codes</SP>
        </PARAM_DESCRIPTION>
      </PARAM_ITEM>
    </PARAM_INDENT>
  </PARAM>
  <DESCRIPTION>
    <P>
    This function convert Scilab string to ASCII code or a matrix of ASCII code to Scilab string.
    Output is a matrix having same number of lines than input, what is not the case with <VERB>ascii</VERB>.
    </P>
  </DESCRIPTION>
  <SEE_ALSO>
    <SEE_ALSO_ITEM> <LINK>ascii</LINK> </SEE_ALSO_ITEM>
  </SEE_ALSO>
  <AUTHORS>
    <AUTHORS_ITEM>V.C.</AUTHORS_ITEM>
  </AUTHORS>
</MAN>
