## Copyright (C) 2001 Paul Kienzle
##
## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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##
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## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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##
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## [v, idx] = nanmax(X [, dim]);
## nanmax is identical to the max function except that NaN values are
## treated as -Inf, and so are ignored.  If all values are NaN, the
## maximum is returned as -Inf. [Is this behaviour compatible?]
##
## See also: nansum, nanmin, nanmean, nanmedian
function [v, idx] = nanmax (X, varargin)
  if nargin < 1
    usage ("[v, idx] = nanmax(X [, dim])");
  else
    try dfi = do_fortran_indexing;
    catch dfi = 0;
    end
    try wfi = warn_fortran_indexing;
    catch wfi = 0;
    end
    try pzoi = prefer_zero_one_indexing;
    catch pzoi = 0;
    end
    unwind_protect
      do_fortran_indexing = 1;
      warn_fortran_indexing = 0;
      prefer_zero_one_indexing = 1;

      X(isnan(X)) = -Inf;
      [v,idx] = max (X, varargin{:});
    unwind_protect_cleanup
      do_fortran_indexing = dfi;
      warn_fortran_indexing = wfi;
      prefer_zero_one_indexing = pzoi;
    end_unwind_protect
  endif
endfunction