Changing function with Iteration
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Hi all I want to call function/script iteratively as I made mutants of a program and each mutant ends with a iteration number. The problem is that I need to change function name iteratively with each iteration of matlab code. Please help me out. My sample mutants are ArithOper1(input),ArithOper2(input),ArithOper3(input),........
Thanks you in Advance
amir
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Matt Tearle
on 19 Apr 2012
So you have a bunch of functions called ArithOper1.m, ArithOper2.m, ArithOper3.m, etc? If there's a small enough number of these, you can call the appropriate one using a simple switch construct
switch n
case 1
% call ArithOper1
case 2
% call ArithOper2
end
If this is unwieldy, you can use eval:
fnm = ['ArithOper',num2str(n)];
str = ['z = ',fnm,'(x,y);']; % z = ArithOperN(x,y)
eval(str);
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Matt Tearle
on 20 Apr 2012
You need to store the output somehow. eval just evaluates a string as a command, so you're executing the command "z = ArithOperN(x);" (with N being filled in with a given value). So you just keep overwriting z in the loop. What do you want to do with the output? Store it somewhere? Just display it? Whatever it is, change your string (str) to make the appropriate command. Equivalently, add some commands after "eval(str)" that does something with the result which is currently stored in z.
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Sean de Wolski
on 19 Apr 2012
- FAQ a1 a2 an
- doc persistent %use persistent variables
- doc switch %make a decision based on something
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