MATLAB Programming

Converting Between Strings and Cell Arrays ........... 12-31
Search and Replace Using Regular Expressions ......... 12-31
Evaluating Expressions ............................ 12-33
Find Alternatives to Using eval ...................... 12-33
Assigning to a Series of Variables .................... 12-33
Short-Circuit Logical Operators ...................... 12-33
Changing the Counter Variable within a for Loop ....... 12-34
MATLAB Path ..................................... 12-35
Precedence Rules .................................. 12-35
File Precedence ................................... 12-36
Adding a Directory to the Search Path ................ 12-36
Handles to Functions Not on the Path ................. 12-36
Making Toolbox File Changes Visible to MATLAB ....... 12-37
Making Nontoolbox File Changes Visible to MATLAB .... 12-38
Change Notification on Windows ..................... 12-38
Program Control .................................. 12-39
Using break, continue, and return .................... 12-39
Using switch Versus if .............................. 12-40
MATLAB case Evaluates Strings ..................... 12-40
Multiple Conditions in a case Statement ............... 12-40
Implicit Break in switch-case ........................ 12-40
Variable Scope in a switch .......................... 12-41
Catching Errors with try-catch ...................... 12-41
Nested try-catch Blocks ............................ 12-42
Forcing an Early Return from a Function .............. 12-42
Save and Load ..................................... 12-43
Saving Data from the Workspace ..................... 12-43
Loading Data into the Workspace .................... 12-43
Viewing Variables in a MAT-File ..................... 12-44
Appending to a MAT-File ........................... 12-44
SaveandLoadonStartuporQuit .................... 12-45
Saving to an ASCII File ............................ 12-45
Files and Filenames ................................ 12-46
Naming M-files ................................... 12-46
Naming Other Files ............................... 12-46
Passing Filenames as Arguments .................... 12-47
Passing Filenames to ASCII Files .................... 12-47
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