About MATLAB Answers

MATLAB Answers provides a collaborative environment for getting the best answers to your questions about MathWorks products. You can tap into the knowledge and experience of over 100,000 MATLAB Central members and MathWorks employees. You can:

  • Search for answers to programming questions
  • Ask a question and pick the best answer
  • Comment on other questions
  • Vote up the best answers
  • Build your reputation by contributing questions and answers

Building Reputation

As a reward for contributing great questions and answers, you earn points. The number of points you earn depends on the action taken. The more points you earn, the greater your reputation—with the bragging rights to match.

When someone else… You earn…
Accepts your answer 4 points
Votes up your answer 2 points
Votes up your question 1 point

Becoming an Editor

Getting Started

Search or Browse for Answers

Before you ask a question, look around to see if the question has already been asked and answered. You can browse for questions, or you can use search suggestions or tags. All questions are tagged with one or more keywords to help others find questions and answers of interest. The number of answers and votes is often an indicator of answer quality.

Ask a Question

Tips

If your research did not provide an answer to your specific question, go ahead and ask it. The community is very responsive, so check back soon for answers.

Answer a Question

Tips

If you are unable to answer a question because it is not clear, comment on the question to ask for clarification or more detail.

Targeting Searches with Directives

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To find this content Use this directive Examples
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All content asked, answered, or commented by a contributor contributor:
Content asked by a contributor asked_by:
Content answered by a contributorr

answered_by:

Content commented by a contributor commented_by:
Date question was asked, within last 7 or 30 days asked_at:
Status of questions: accepted, answered, or unanswered status:
Users with a public profile in which the Company/Organization field contains this string organization:
Answer text includes the text string answer:
Comment text includes the text string comment:
Question text includes the text string question:
Title text includes the text string title:
Category category:
Product related to discussion product:

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