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%Reads a PGM image into a Matrix (Grayscale format)
%
%Written by:
%   Alexander Stoytchev 
%   College of Computing 
%   Georgia Tech
%   saho@cc.gatech.edu
%   http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~saho
%
% Returns:
%   On success a (R,C) matrix is returned. 
%   On failure the function returns -1;
%
% Note: No color scaling is performed, i.e. the number of colors read 
%       from the PGM file is ignored.
%
% Last modified: Nov 28, 1998
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function IMAGE_GRAY=imread_pgm(fname)

fid=fopen(fname,'r');
if fid== -1
  IMAGE_GRAY=-1;
else
  magic=fgetl(fid);
  if ~strcmp(magic,'P5')
     IMAGE_GRAY=-1;
     return
  end;
  Comment=fgetl(fid);

  if (Comment(1) ~= '#')  %File with no comment
     CR=sscanf(Comment,'%d %d');
  else
     C_R=fgetl(fid);
     CR=sscanf(C_R,'%d %d');
  end;
  Colors=fgetl(fid);
  Col=sscanf(Colors,'%d');

  [IMAGE_GRAY, count]=fread(fid,[CR(1), CR(2)], 'char*1');

  IMAGE_GRAY=uint8(IMAGE_GRAY');
% imshow(IMAGE_GRAY);
  fclose(fid);

end;