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 Contents

Language

Syntax Basics
1
Continue Long Statements on Multiple Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2

Name=Value in Function Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3

Ignore Function Outputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4

Variable Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5

Valid Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5
Conflicts with Function Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5

Case and Space Sensitivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-7

Choose Command Syntax or Function Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8

Command Syntax and Function Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8
Avoid Common Syntax Mistakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-9
How MATLAB Recognizes Command Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-9

Resolve Error: Undefined Function or Variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-11

Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-11
Possible Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-11

Program Components
2
MATLAB Operators and Special Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2
Arithmetic Operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2
Relational Operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2
Logical Operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2
Special Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3
String and Character Formatting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-16

Array vs. Matrix Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-20

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-20
Array Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-20
Matrix Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-22

v
 Compatible Array Sizes for Basic Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-25
Inputs with Compatible Sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-25
Inputs with Incompatible Sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-27
Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-27

Array Comparison with Relational Operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-30

Array Comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-30
Logic Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-32

Operator Precedence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-33

Precedence of AND and OR Operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-33
Overriding Default Precedence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-33

Average Similar Data Points Using a Tolerance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-35

Group Scattered Data Using a Tolerance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-37

Bit-Wise Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-39

Perform Cyclic Redundancy Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-45

Conditional Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-48

Loop Control Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-50

Regular Expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-52

What Is a Regular Expression? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-52
Steps for Building Expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-53
Operators and Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-56

Lookahead Assertions in Regular Expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-64

Lookahead Assertions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-64
Overlapping Matches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-64
Logical AND Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-65

Tokens in Regular Expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-67

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-67
Multiple Tokens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-69
Unmatched Tokens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-70
Tokens in Replacement Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-70
Named Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-71

Dynamic Regular Expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-73

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-73
Dynamic Match Expressions — (??expr) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-74
Commands That Modify the Match Expression — (??@cmd) . . . . . . 2-74
Commands That Serve a Functional Purpose — (?@cmd) . . . . . . . . 2-75
Commands in Replacement Expressions — ${cmd} . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-77

Comma-Separated Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-80

What Is a Comma-Separated List? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-80
Generating a Comma-Separated List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-80
Assigning Output from a Comma-Separated List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-82
Assigning to a Comma-Separated List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-82
How to Use Comma-Separated Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-83

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 Fast Fourier Transform Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-86
Troubleshooting Operations with Comma-Separated Lists . . . . . . . . 2-86

Alternatives to the eval Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-91

Why Avoid the eval Function? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-91
Variables with Sequential Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-91
Files with Sequential Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-92
Function Names in Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-92
Field Names in Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-93
Error Handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-93

Classes (Data Types)

Overview of MATLAB Classes

3
Fundamental MATLAB Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2

Detect States of Variables Using is* Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5

Numeric Classes
4
Integers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2
Integer Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2
Creating Integer Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2
Arithmetic Operations on Integer Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4
Largest and Smallest Values for Integer Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4

Floating-Point Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-6

Double-Precision Floating Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-6
Single-Precision Floating Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-6
Creating Floating-Point Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-7
Arithmetic Operations on Floating-Point Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-8
Largest and Smallest Values for Floating-Point Classes . . . . . . . . . . . 4-9
Accuracy of Floating-Point Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-10
Avoiding Common Problems with Floating-Point Arithmetic . . . . . . 4-11

Create Complex Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-14

Infinity and NaN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-15

Infinity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-15
NaN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-15

Identifying Numeric Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-17

vii
 Display Format for Numeric Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-18

Integer Arithmetic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-20

Single Precision Math . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-27

The Logical Class

5
Find Array Elements That Meet a Condition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2

Reduce Logical Arrays to Single Value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6

Characters and Strings

6
Text in String and Character Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2

Create String Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-5

Cell Arrays of Character Vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-12

Create Cell Array of Character Vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-12
Access Character Vectors in Cell Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-12
Convert Cell Arrays to String Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-13

Analyze Text Data with String Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-15

Test for Empty Strings and Missing Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-20

Formatting Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-24

Fields of the Formatting Operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-24
Setting Field Width and Precision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-28
Restrictions on Using Identifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-30

Compare Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-32

Search and Replace Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-37

Build Pattern Expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-40

Convert Numeric Values to Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-45

Convert Text to Numeric Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-48

Unicode and ASCII Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-52

Hexadecimal and Binary Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-54

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 Frequently Asked Questions About String Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-58
Why Does Using Command Form With Strings Return An Error? . . 6-58
Why Do Strings in Cell Arrays Return an Error? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-59
Why Does length() of String Return 1? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-59
Why Does isempty("") Return 0? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-60
Why Does Appending Strings Using Square Brackets Return Multiple
Strings? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-61

Update Your Code to Accept Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-63

What Are String Arrays? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-63
Recommended Approaches for String Adoption in Old APIs . . . . . . 6-63
How to Adopt String Arrays in Old APIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-65
Recommended Approaches for String Adoption in New Code . . . . . 6-65
How to Maintain Compatibility in New Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-66
How to Manually Convert Input Arguments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-67
How to Check Argument Data Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-67
Terminology for Character and String Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-69

Dates and Time

7
Represent Dates and Times in MATLAB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2

Specify Time Zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-5

Convert Date and Time to Julian Date or POSIX Time . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-7

Set Date and Time Display Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-10

Formats for Individual Date and Duration Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-10
datetime Display Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-10
duration Display Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-11
calendarDuration Display Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-12
Default datetime Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-12

Generate Sequence of Dates and Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-14

Sequence of Datetime or Duration Values Between Endpoints with
Step Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-14
Add Duration or Calendar Duration to Create Sequence of Dates . . 7-16
Specify Length and Endpoints of Date or Duration Sequence . . . . . 7-17
Sequence of Datetime Values Using Calendar Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-17

Share Code and Data Across Locales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-20

Write Locale-Independent Date and Time Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-20
Write Dates in Other Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-21
Read Dates in Other Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-21

Extract or Assign Date and Time Components of Datetime Array . . 7-23

Combine Date and Time from Separate Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-26

Date and Time Arithmetic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-28

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 Compare Dates and Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-33

Plot Dates and Times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-36

Core Functions Supporting Date and Time Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-47

Convert Between Text and datetime or duration Values . . . . . . . . . 7-48

Replace Discouraged Instances of Serial Date Numbers and Date

Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-57
Convert Serial Date Numbers and Date Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-57
Replace Functions That Use Date Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-57
Discouraged Syntaxes for Date and Time Components . . . . . . . . . . 7-61
Guidelines for Updating Your Own Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-62

Carryover in Date Vectors and Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-64

Converting Date Vector Returns Unexpected Output . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-66

Categorical Arrays
8
Create Categorical Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-2

Convert Text in Table Variables to Categorical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-6

Plot Categorical Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-10

Compare Categorical Array Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-16

Combine Categorical Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-19

Combine Categorical Arrays Using Multiplication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-22

Access Data Using Categorical Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-24

Select Data By Category . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-24
Common Ways to Access Data Using Categorical Arrays . . . . . . . . . 8-24

Work with Protected Categorical Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-30

Advantages of Using Categorical Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-34

Natural Representation of Categorical Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-34
Mathematical Ordering for Character Vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-34
Reduce Memory Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-34

Ordinal Categorical Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-36

Order of Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-36
How to Create Ordinal Categorical Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-36
Working with Ordinal Categorical Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-38

Core Functions Supporting Categorical Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-39

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 Tables
9
Create Tables and Assign Data to Them . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-2

Add and Delete Table Rows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-9

Add, Delete, and Rearrange Table Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-12

Clean Messy and Missing Data in Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-18

Modify Units, Descriptions, and Table Variable Names . . . . . . . . . . 9-24

Add Custom Properties to Tables and Timetables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-27

Access Data in Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-32

Summary of Table Indexing Syntaxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-32
Table Indexing with Specified Rows and Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-37
Find Rows Where Values Meet Logical Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-41
Dot Notation with Any Variable Name or Expression . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-44
Extract Data from Specified Rows and Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-46

Calculations on Data in Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-48

Split Data into Groups and Calculate Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-56

Perform Calculations by Group in Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-59

Advantages of Using Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-71

Grouping Variables To Split Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-76

Grouping Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-76
Group Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-76
The Split-Apply-Combine Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-77
Missing Group Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-77

Changes to DimensionNames Property in R2016b . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-79

Data Cleaning and Calculations in Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-81

Grouped Calculations in Tables and Timetables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-99

Timetables
10
Create Timetables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-2

Resample and Aggregate Data in Timetable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-5

Combine Timetables and Synchronize Their Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-8

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 Retime and Synchronize Timetable Variables Using Different
Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-14

Select Times in Timetable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-19

Clean Timetable with Missing, Duplicate, or Nonuniform Times

.................................................... 10-27

Using Row Labels in Table and Timetable Operations . . . . . . . . . . 10-36

Loma Prieta Earthquake Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-41

Preprocess and Explore Time-Stamped Data Using timetable . . . 10-51

Add Events from External Data to Timetable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-71

Find Events in Timestamped Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-83

Structures
11
Structure Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-2
Create Scalar Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-2
Access Values in Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-2
Index into Nonscalar Structure Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-4

Concatenate Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-8

Generate Field Names from Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-10

Access Data in Nested Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-11

Access Elements of a Nonscalar Structure Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-13

Ways to Organize Data in Structure Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-15

Plane Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-15
Element-by-Element Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-16

Memory Requirements for Structure Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-18

Cell Arrays
12
What Is a Cell Array? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-2

Create Cell Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-3

Access Data in Cell Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-5

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 Add Cells to Cell Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-8

Delete Data from Cell Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-10

Combine Cell Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-11

Pass Contents of Cell Arrays to Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-12

Preallocate Memory for Cell Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-16

Cell vs. Structure Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-17

Multilevel Indexing to Access Parts of Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-21

Function Handles
13
Create Function Handle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-2
What Is a Function Handle? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-2
Creating Function Handles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-2
Anonymous Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-3
Arrays of Function Handles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-4
Saving and Loading Function Handles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-4

Pass Function to Another Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-5

Call Local Functions Using Function Handles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-6

Compare Function Handles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-8

Dictionaries
14
Map Data with Dictionaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-2

Dictionaries and Custom Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-6

Hash Equivalence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-6
Overload keyHash and keyMatch for Custom Classes . . . . . . . . . . . 14-6

Map Containers
15
Overview of Map Data Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-2

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 Description of Map Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-4
Properties of Map Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-4
Methods of Map Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-4

Create Map Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-6

Construct Empty Map Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-6
Construct Initialized Map Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-6
Combine Map Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-7

Examine Contents of Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-8

Read and Write Using Key Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-9

Read From Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-9
Add Key/Value Pairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-10
Build Map with Concatenation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-10

Modify Keys and Values in Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-13

Remove Keys and Values from Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-13
Modify Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-13
Modify Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-14
Modify Copy of Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-14

Map to Different Value Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-15

Map to Structure Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-15
Map to Cell Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-16

Combining Unlike Classes

16
Valid Combinations of Unlike Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-2

Combining Unlike Integer Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-3

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-3
Example of Combining Unlike Integer Sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-3
Example of Combining Signed with Unsigned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-4

Combining Integer and Noninteger Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-5

Combining Cell Arrays with Non-Cell Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-6

Empty Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-7

Concatenation Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-8

Combining Single and Double Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-8
Combining Integer and Double Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-8
Combining Character and Double Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-8
Combining Logical and Double Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-8

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 Using Objects
17
Copying Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-2
Two Copy Behaviors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-2
Handle Object Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-2
Value Object Copy Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-2
Handle Object Copy Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-3
Testing for Handle or Value Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-5

Defining Your Own Classes

18

Scripts and Functions

Scripts
19
Create Scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-2

Add Comments to Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-3

Create and Run Sections in Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-5

Divide Your File into Sections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-5
Run Sections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-6
Navigate Between Sections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-7
Behavior of Sections in Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-8
Behavior of Sections in Loops and Conditional Statements . . . . . . . 19-8

Scripts vs. Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-10

Add Functions to Scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-12

Create a Script with Local Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-12
Run Scripts with Local Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-12
Restrictions for Local Functions and Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-13
Access Help for Local Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19-13

Live Scripts and Functions

20
What Is a Live Script or Function? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-2
Differences with Plain Code Scripts and Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-3

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