MATLAB Programming

4
M-File Programming
When you write a program in MATLAB, you save it to a file called an M-file
(named after its .m file extension). There are two types of M-files that you can
write: scripts and functions. Most of this chapter is about functions, as they
are the more complex and useful of the two M-file types.
This chapter covers basic program development, describes how to write and
call scripts and functions, and shows how to pass different types of data in a
function call.
Program Development (p. 4-3)
Working with M-Files (p. 4-8)
M-File Scripts and Functions
(p. 4-18)
Function Handles (p. 4-23)
Procedures and tools used in
creating, debugging, optimizing, and
checking in a program
Introduction to the basic MATLAB
program file
Overview of scripts, simple programs
that require no input or output, and
functions, more complex programs
that exchange input and output data
with the caller
Packaging the access to a function
into a function handle, and passing
that handle to other functions