is there a way of typing for if like:
var = (cond) ? true : false;
or do we have to use this format?
if (cond)
true
else
false
end
is there a way of typing for if like:
var = (cond) ? true : false;
or do we have to use this format?
if (cond)
true
else
false
end
MatLab doesn't have a ternary operator, or any other syntactic sugar for one-line if-statements. But if your if-statement is really simple, you could just write it in one line anyway:
if (cond); casetrue(); else; casefalse(); end
It's not as simple as ternary operator, but still better than writing it in 5 lines of code.
If you only need true or false, you can do what MatlabSorter
suggests. In case you want a real tertiary operator (i.e. a = b ? c : d
), there is none in MATLAB. However, using the file supplied here, you can get close.
You can do
var = 5 > 4;
which will set var to true. Just substitute what ever you need for 5 > 4.
MATLAB doesn't have conditional expressions, but in some situations you can get a similar effect by saying, e.g., var = cond*true_expr + (1-cond)*false_expr
. Unlike C's conditional expression, this will of course always evaluate both true_expr
and false_expr
, and if cond
happens not to be either 0 or 1 (note: false
behaves like 0; true
behaves like 1) you'll get crazy results.
Hmm... no one has mentioned this
fi = @(varargin)varargin{end-varargin{1}}
somewhere in the docs it is written the `end' is coming to one so this will be more future proof
fi = @(varargin)varargin{length(varargin)-varargin{1}}
Usage :
fi(input('Do you like Matlab ? '),'yes','no')
>> no
If your in the need of inline cases see Mathworks ...
I use this style frequently:
cond = what < ever;
n = getfield([23,42], {1+(what < ever)}) % for any 1x1-data
s = cell2mat(getfield({'no','yes'}, {1+(what < ever)})) % for nonuniform
it's compact enough to not require a helper function
Replace
c = (x ? a : b)
by
c = subsref({b; a}, substruct('{}', {x + 1}))
x should be a boolean value or 1 or 0.
true or 1 will select a
false or 0 will select b
This should work with all what cells can contain and can also be used in an intricate formular!