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Programming and Data Types
MATLAB is a high-level language that includes data structures, functions, control flow statements, input/output, and object-oriented capabilities. This section presents MATLAB's programming features and techniques in the following chapters:
- M-File Programming - describes language constructs and how to create MATLAB programs (M-files). It covers data types, flow control, array indexing, optimizing performance, and other topics.
- Character Arrays - covers MATLAB's support for string data, including how to create character arrays and cell arrays of strings, ways to represent strings, how to perform common string operations, and conversion between string and numeric formats.
- Multidimensional Arrays - discusses the use of MATLAB arrays having more than two dimensions. It covers array creation, array indexing, data organization, and how MATLAB functions operate on these arrays.
- Structures and Cell Arrays - describes two MATLAB data types that provide hierarchical storage for dissimilar kinds of data. Structures contain different kinds of data organized by named fields. Cell arrays consist of cells that themselves contain MATLAB arrays.
- Function Handles - describes how you use the MATLAB function handle to capture certain information about a function, including function references, that you can then use to execute the function from anywhere in the MATLAB environment.
- MATLAB Classes and Objects - presents MATLAB's object-oriented programming capabilities. Classes and objects enable you to add new data types and new operations to MATLAB. This section also includes examples of how to implement well-behaved classes in MATLAB.
Related Information
The following sections provide information that is also useful to MATLAB programmers. This documentation is available in MATLAB's online help.
- Graphics - describes how to plot vector and matrix data in 2-D and 3-D representations, how to annotate, print, and export plots, and how to use graphics objects and their figure and axes properties.
- Calling C and Fortran Programs from MATLAB - describes how to build C and Fortran subroutines into callable MEX files.
- Calling MATLAB from C and Fortran Programs - discusses how to use the MATLAB engine library to call MATLAB from C and Fortran programs.
- Calling Java from MATLAB - describes how to use the MATLAB interface to Java classes and objects.
- Importing and Exporting Data - describes techniques for importing data to and exporting data from the MATLAB environment.
- ActiveX and DDE Support - describes how to use ActiveX and Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) with MATLAB.
- Serial Port I/O - describes how to communicate with peripheral devices such as modems, printers, and scientific instruments that you connect to your computer's serial port.
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