Help with using "nargin"
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Hi All,
I got a function "replace(a,b,c)" where I am trying to replace input arguments with another input argument when some of them are omitted. e.g. If c is omitted, I need to replace a with 2 copies of b and if b is also omitted, a needs to be replaced with 2 zeros. I tried to use nargin, but haven't been successful, can anyone help me on what I am doing wrong?
function replace(a,b,c)
if nargin<2
a=0;
end
if nargin<3
a=b;
end
Thanks.
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James Tursa
on 15 May 2015
Edited: James Tursa
on 15 May 2015
Think about what happens in your code if nargin == 1. In that case, b does not exist, but you get into the nargin<3 test and try to use b. So this will fail.
Your words are not entirely clear to me, but here is a guess at what you might want:
function replace(a,b,c)
if nargin < 2
a = 0;
b = 0;
c = 0;
elseif nargin < 3
a = b;
c = 0;
end
2nd attempt at coding verbatim what you requested:
function replace(a,b,c)
if nargin < 2
a = [0 0];
elseif nargin < 3
a = [b b];
end
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