Get the path to the mat file that called my function?

I am writing a git library to do some code inspection and reporting. I intend to have it as its own package; let's call it `+git-injector`, and give it a method `report`.

I want to perform git operations on the repository that calls `git-injector.report()`. `matfilename` gives me the path to `report`, which is not helpful.

What options does matlab provide for reflection-type inspection so i can programmatically determine what the next frame up the stack from me was/ answer the question "who called me" inside of `report.m`?

What i want would probably look like this:

    function status = report()
        callingPath = fullfile(BLACK_VOODOO_MAGIC_REFLECTION_METHOD());  % get the path to the function that invoked me
        % do some helpful stuff on that code's git information, if it exists.
        status = get_repo_status(callingPath);
    end

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

You can get the call stack by calling dbstack(). Then you can find the file using dir() or which().