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How to get the name of the caller?

Hi,

I try to get the name of the caller function from the callee's side. Is it possible to do that in Matlab?

For instance:
function = funF()
myCall()
end

and then myCall prints out 'funF'.

Best,
M.M.

See the help for:

mfilename

"Matt Fig" <spamanon@yahoo.com> wrote in message <hec9of$ok0$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> See the help for:
>
> mfilename

To add a little detail (in case you're as obtuse as I am):

function = funF()
myCall(mfilename)
end

function myCall(caller)
caller
end

This works only if funF is in a file named funF.m.

You might have better luck with dbstack, which returns the call chain. I think you can get what you want with dbstack(1) and then you must figure out how to parse the output. The output is delivered in an nx1 struct which I have no idea how to parse (seeing as how I'm a newbie to Matlab), and the first element of that structure seems to contain what you want.

Good luck,
-Jeff