Using the C Math Library

Operators and Special Functions

Arithmetic Operator Functions 

Function	Purpose
mlfLdivide	Array left division (.\).
mlfMinus	Array subtraction (-).
mlfMldivide	Matrix left division (\).
mlfMpower	Matrix power (^).
mlfMrdivide	Matrix right division (/).
mlfMtimes	Matrix multiplication (*).
mlfPlus	Array addition (+).
mlfPower	Array power (.^).
mlfRdivide	Array right division (./).
mlfTimes	Array multiplication (.*).
mlfUnaryminus,mlfUminus	Unary minus.

Relational Operator Functions 

Function	Purpose
mlfEq	Equality (==).
mlfGe	Greater than or equal to (>=).
mlfGt	Greater than (>).
mlfLe	Less than or equal to (<=).
mlfLt	Less than (<).
mlfNeq, mlfNe	Inequality (~=).

Logical Operator Functions 

Function	Purpose
mlfAll	True if all elements of vector are nonzero.
mlfAnd	Logical AND (&).
mlfAny	True if any element of vector is nonzero.
mlfNot	Logical NOT (~).
mlfOr	Logical OR (|).

Set Operators 

Function	Purpose
mlfIsmember	True for set member.
mlfSetdiff	Set difference.
mlfSetxor	Set exclusive OR.
mlfUnion	Set union.
mlfUnique	Set unique.

Special Operator Functions 

Function	Purpose
mlfColon	Create a sequence of indices.
mlfCreateColonIndex	Create an array that acts like the colon operator (:).
mlfCtranspose	Complex Conjugate Transpose (').
mlfEnd	Index to the end of an array dimension.
mlfHorzcat	Horizontal concatenation.
mlfTranspose	Noncomplex conjugate transpose (.')
mlfVertcat	Vertical concatenation.

Logical Functions 

Function	Purpose
mlfFind	Find indices of nonzero elements.
mlfFinite	Extract only finite elements from array.
mlfIsa	True if object is a given class.
mlfIschar	True for character arrays (strings).
mlfIsempty	True for empty array.
mlfIsequal	True for input arrays of the same type, size, and contents.
mlfIsfinite	True for finite elements of an array.
mlfIsinf	True for infinite elements.
mlfIsletter	True for elements of the string that are letters of the alphabet.
mlfIslogical	True for logical arrays.
mlfIsnan	True for Not-a-Number.
mlfIsreal	True for noncomplex matrices.
mlfIsspace	True for whitespace characters in string matrices.
mlfLogical	Convert numeric values to logical.
mlfTobool	Convert an array to a Boolean value by reducing the rank of the array to a scalar.

MATLAB as a Programming Language 

Function	Purpose
mlfFeval	Function evaluation.
mlfLasterr	Last error message.
mlfMfilename	Return a NULL array. M-file execution does not apply to stand-alone applications.

Message Display 

Function	Purpose
mlfError	Display message and abort function.
mlfLastError	Return string that contains the last error message.
mlfWarning	Display warning message.

General Purpose Commands

Elementary Matrices and Matrix Manipulation