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+% NOBJS Returns the number of objects in the inner object array.
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%
+% DESCRIPTION: Returns the number of columns of the inner object array.
+%
+% CALL:        m = nobjs(collection-object);
+%              m = collection.ncols();
+%
+% <a href="matlab:utils.helper.displayMethodInfo('collection', 'nobjs')">Parameters Description</a>
+%
+% VERSION:     $Id: nobjs.m,v 1.5 2011/04/08 08:56:21 hewitson Exp $
+%
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+function varargout = nobjs(varargin)
+  
+  % Check if this is a call for parameters
+  if utils.helper.isinfocall(varargin{:})
+    varargout{1} = getInfo(varargin{3});
+    return
+  end
+
+  % Collect all AOs
+  ms = utils.helper.collect_objects(varargin(:), 'collection');
+  
+  if numel(ms) ~= 1
+    error('### This method can only handle one collection object but there are [%d] objects.', numel(ms));
+  end
+    
+  varargout{1} = numel(ms.objs);
+
+end
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%                               Local Functions                               %
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%
+% FUNCTION:    getInfo
+%
+% DESCRIPTION: Get Info Object
+%
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+function ii = getInfo(varargin)
+  if nargin == 1 && strcmpi(varargin{1}, 'None')
+    sets = {};
+    pl   = [];
+  else
+    sets = {'Default'};
+    pl   = getDefaultPlist;
+  end
+  % Build info object
+  ii = minfo(mfilename, 'collection', 'ltpda', utils.const.categories.helper, '$Id: nobjs.m,v 1.5 2011/04/08 08:56:21 hewitson Exp $', sets, pl);
+end
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%
+% FUNCTION:    getDefaultPlist
+%
+% DESCRIPTION: Get Default Plist
+%
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+function plout = getDefaultPlist()
+  persistent pl;  
+  if exist('pl', 'var')==0 || isempty(pl)
+    pl = buildplist();
+  end
+  plout = pl;  
+end
+
+function pl = buildplist()
+  pl = plist.EMPTY_PLIST;
+end
+