making an array with element values equal to column position

I'm trying to make a function which, given an input row and column size M by N, spits out an M by N array that has its element values equal to the position of the column (or row) they are in. For instance, if the dimension is 4 by 3,

A = [1 2 3; 1 2 3; 1 2 3; 1 2 3]

the function would output an array like this one. I would know how to solve this if the numbers of rows and columns are fixed, but I would like to design a function that takes in any input of rows and columns and produces an appropriate array. How would I go about this problem?

Answer 1

[James Tursa]

result = repmat(1:N,M,1);