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Lecture 5 MATLAB Programming

This document discusses MATLAB user-defined functions. It provides an example of a factorial function, factorial(n), that calculates the factorial of the input n. It also discusses how to call user-defined functions and some key aspects of function syntax in MATLAB like input/output arguments, comments, and variable scope. Additionally, it covers the concept of pass-by-value in MATLAB function calling and provides an example function, minmax(a), to find the minimum and maximum values in a 2D array.

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Lecture 5 MATLAB Programming

This document discusses MATLAB user-defined functions. It provides an example of a factorial function, factorial(n), that calculates the factorial of the input n. It also discusses how to call user-defined functions and some key aspects of function syntax in MATLAB like input/output arguments, comments, and variable scope. Additionally, it covers the concept of pass-by-value in MATLAB function calling and provides an example function, minmax(a), to find the minimum and maximum values in a 2D array.

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Lecture5MATLABprogramming (3)

Dr.TonyCahill

Objectives
UserdefinedFunctions

ASimpleExample:factorial
Writeaprogramtocalculatethefactorial:
N!=1,N=0 N!=N*(N1)*(N2)*3*2*1,N>0
n=input('Please enter N:'); n_factorial=1; for ii=1:n n_factorial=n_factorial*ii; end disp ([ num2str(n),'!=',num2str(n_factorial) ]);

ASimpleExample:factorial
WhatifIwanttoautomaticallycalculate0!, 1!,2!,3!,4!and5!?
Usingnestedloop:
for n=0:5 n_factorial=1; for ii=1:n n_factorial=n_factorial*ii; end disp ([ num2str(n),'!=',num2str(n_factorial) ]); end

ASimpleExample:factorial
WecandevelopageneralMATLABfunction thatcalculatesN!,givenN.
Listoffactorial.m function y = factorial( n ) %FACTORIAL Calculate the factorial of n % Function FACTORIAL calculates the factorial of n: % n!=1*2*...*(n-1)*n % % Written by: Qi Ying (Jan 2011) % CVEN 302 y=1; for ii=1:n % calculate N! y=y*ii; end end

ASimpleExample:factorial
Callingtheuserdefinedfunction:
Listoftest1.m % demonstrates how to call the user % defined function 'factorial' for ii=0:5 n_factorial=factorial(ii); fprintf ('%d!=%d\n',ii,n_factorial); end >>test1 0!=1 1!=1 2!=2 3!=6 4!=24 5!=120

ASimpleExample:factorial
Somedefinitions:
Listoffactorial.m function y=factorial(n) %FACTORIALCalculatethefactorialofn %FunctionFACTORIALcalculatesthefactorialofn: %n!=1*2*...*(n1)*n 1. TheMfileiscalledfactorial.m. % %Writtenby:QiYing(Jan2011) 2. niscalledtheinputargument %CVEN302 3. yiscalledtheoutputargument y=1; 4. ThefirstcommentlineiscalledtheH1 for ii=1:n commentline,whichissearchableby y=y*ii; end thelookforcommand end

5. Theremainingcommentlinesuntilthe firstblanklineorexecutablelineis displayedbythehelpcommand 6. Loopvariableiiisalocalvariable,only visibleinsidethefunction.

GeneralformofaMATLABfunction
function [outarg1, outarg2, ] = fname (inarg1, inarg2, ) %H1 comment line % other comment lines % % more comment lines (executable code) end

Anotherexample:statistics
function [ mean, std_dev ] = stat1( x ) %STAT1 Calculate the mean and standard deviation of x. sum_x=0; sum_x2=0; n=length(x); % number of data points in x % loop over each data point in x to calculate sum(x) and sum(x^2) for ii=1:n sum_x=sum_x+x(ii); sum_x2=sum_x2+x(ii)^2; end % return the mean and standard deviation mean=sum_x/n; std_dev=sqrt((n*sum_x2-sum_x^2)/(n*(n-1))); end % end function avg1

Anotherexample:statistics
Listoftest3.m
x=[1 2 3 4 5] [m1,s1]=stat1(x); fprintf('mean=%f, std=%f\n',m1,s1); % generate some random numbers x=rand(1,5) [m2,s2]=stat1(x); fprintf('mean=%f, std=%f\n',m2,s2);

Results >>test3 x= 12345 mean=3.000000,std=1.581139 x= 0.14190.42180.91570.79220.9595 mean=0.646217,std=0.352429

VariablePassinginMATLAB
Remember:MATLABcommunicatewiththe functionsusingapassbyvaluescheme.See thefollowingexample:
Listoffunc1.m function y = func1( x ) fprintf('In the beginning of func1, x=%f\n',x); for ii=1:3 x=x+1; fprintf('In func1: x=%f\n',x); end end Listoftest2.m x=5; fprintf('Before func1, in the main program x=%f\n',x); func1(x); fprintf('After func1, in the main program x=%f\n',x);

VariablePassinginMATLAB
>>test2 Beforefunc1,inthemainprogramx=5.000000 Inthebeginningoffunc1,x=5.000000 Infunc1:x=6.000000 Infunc1:x=7.000000 Infunc1:x=8.000000 Afterfunc1,inthemainprogramx=5.000000
Passbyvalueisimportantfordataisolation Thevalueofxinthemainprogram(test2.m)ispassed intothefunctionfunc1tothefirstinputargument,x. However,theargumentxinthefunctionisisolatedfromthemainprogram. Nochangesoftheargumentwillbevisibletothemainprogram.

Outputfromfunc1

InclassExercise
WriteaMATLABfunctionthatreturnsthe minimumandmaximumvaluesina2Darray

Onesolution
function [ r ] = minmax( a ) % MINMAX finds the minimum and maximum values in an array n=numel(a); % number of total elements in an array % r(1) saves the minimum value % r(2) saves the maximum value r(1)=realmax; % maximum possible float number -> r(1) r(2)=realmin; % minimum possible float number -> r(2) for ii=1:n if a(ii)>r(2) % if we find a larger number r(2)=a(ii); end if a(ii)<r(1) % if we find a smaller number r(1)=a(ii); end end end % end of function minmax

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