## Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 John W. Eaton
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} flipud (@var{x})
## Return a copy of @var{x} with the order of the rows reversed.  For
## example,
##
## @example
## @group
## flipud ([1, 2; 3, 4])
##      @result{}  3  4
##          1  2
## @end group
## @end example
##
## Due to the difficulty of defining which axis about which to flip the 
## matrix @code{flipud} only work with 2-d arrays.  To flip N-d arrays
## use @code{flipdim} instead.
## @seealso{fliplr, flipdim, rot90, rotdim}
## @end deftypefn

## Author: jwe

function y = flipud (x)

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

  if (ndims (x) > 2)
    error ("flipud: Only works with 2-d arrays")
  endif

  nr = rows (x);
  y = x (nr:-1:1, :);

endfunction
