## SPONES Sparse Ones Function

Section: Sparse Matrix Support

### Usage

Returns a sparse `float` matrix with ones where the argument matrix has nonzero values. The general syntax for it is

      y = spones(x)

where `x` is a matrix (it may be full or sparse). The output matrix `y` is the same size as `x`, has type `float`, and contains ones in the nonzero positions of `x`.

### Examples

Here are some examples of the `spones` function

    --> a = [1,0,3,0,5;0,0,2,3,0;1,0,0,0,1]

    a =

     1 0 3 0 5
     0 0 2 3 0
     1 0 0 0 1

    --> b = spones(a)

    b =
    	Matrix is sparse with 7 nonzeros
    --> full(b)

    ans =

     1 0 1 0 1
     0 0 1 1 0
     1 0 0 0 1