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Re: Undefined function or variable - for no reason...
Posted:
Feb 10, 2013 10:36 PM
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"Ben Lange" <blange3@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:kf640u$rn0$1@newscl01ah.mathworks.com...
> I experienced this issue in the following scenario.
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> Initially I named my .m file HW1.m, it worked fine.
> I then renamed my .m file to be HW1-NearestNeighboar.m.
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> I experienced the dreaded Undefined function or variable error.
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> I then changed the - to _ and everything worked fine.
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> Apparenly, MatLab doesn't support - characters in the *.m filename.
That is correct.
http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/create-functions-in-files.html
"Valid function names follow the same rules as variable names. They must
start with a letter, and can contain letters, digits, or underscores."
If function names were allowed to contain a minus sign, this:
HW1-NearestNeighboar(1)
would be ambiguous -- it could be either a call to the function you wrote or
the result of subtracting the first element of the array NearestNeighboar
from the variable HW1.
--
Steve Lord
slord@mathworks.com
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