Given a matrix M, row vector v of appropriate length, and diagonal index d (where 0 indicates the main diagonal and off-diagonals are identified by positive and negative integers), return a new matrix where the specified diagonal of M is replaced by v. You may assume that v is the correct length for the specified diagonal. If d is not provided, assume it is zero.
For example,
M = magic(5);
setDiagonal(M,1:4,-1)
ans =
17 24 1 8 15
1 5 7 14 16
4 2 13 20 22
10 12 3 21 3
11 18 25 4 9

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