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* Use semi-colon at the end of the line to prevent the output of the operation to be printed to the screen
 
* Use semi-colon at the end of the line to prevent the output of the operation to be printed to the screen
 
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>> x = 1
 
 
x =
 
 
    1
 
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vs.
 
 
<pre>
 
>> x = 1;
 
>>
 
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* Comments are specified using % at the beginning of the comment. Only line comments are allowed (sorry, but no block-comments, although there's a shortcut in the editor to comment out all the selected lines)
 
* Comments are specified using % at the beginning of the comment. Only line comments are allowed (sorry, but no block-comments, although there's a shortcut in the editor to comment out all the selected lines)
  
 
<pre>
 
<pre>
>> % This is a comment
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% This is a comment
>> x = 0; % this is another comment
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x = 0; % this is another comment
 
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x = 1;
 
x = 1;
x = [1,2,3,4];
 
 
x = "this is a string"
 
x = "this is a string"
 
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>> [r,c] = size([ones(2)])
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[r,c] = size([ones(2)])
 
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r =
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    2
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c =
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    2
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>> x = [1 2 3 4 5]
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x = [1 2 3 4 5]
 
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>> x = [1 2 3 4 5]
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x = [1 2 3 4 5]
 
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>> x = [1,2,3,4,5]
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>> x = [1;2;3;4;5]
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* You can combine both to create a bigger matrix:
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* You can combine both to create a matrix:
  
 
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<pre>
>> x = [1 2 3 4;2 3 4 5;3 4 5 6]
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x = [1 2 3 4;2 3 4 5;3 4 5 6]
 
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x =
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    1    2    3    4
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    2    3    4    5
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    3    4    5    6
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Revision as of 12:36, 22 September 2010


Basics

  • Use semi-colon at the end of the line to prevent the output of the operation to be printed to the screen
  • Comments are specified using % at the beginning of the comment. Only line comments are allowed (sorry, but no block-comments, although there's a shortcut in the editor to comment out all the selected lines)
% This is a comment
x = 0; % this is another comment
  • The "language" is not strongly typed. The following sequence is valid:
x = 1;
x = "this is a string"


  • Functions may return more than one value, and they can be of any type. For example:
[r,c] = size([ones(2)])


Vector and Matrices

  • Use square brackets to define a vector/matrix
x = [1 2 3 4 5]


  • Inside a vector/matrix definition, commas or spaces separate elements row-wise. For example:
x = [1 2 3 4 5]

is the same as:

x = [1,2,3,4,5]

and they both generate a row vector. Semi-colons, instead, separate elements column-wise. For example, the following line will create a column vector:

x = [1;2;3;4;5]


  • You can combine both to create a matrix:
x = [1 2 3 4;2 3 4 5;3 4 5 6]
  • Some useful vector/matrix operators are:

In the following code snippets I'll assume that x was defined as:

>> x = [1 2;3 4]

x =

     1     2
     3     4
    • Use ' as a suffix to transpose the vector/matrix:
>> x'

ans =

     1     3
     2     4
>> 
    • The function size(x) will return the size of x: first number is the number of row and the second is the number of columns:
>> size(x)

ans =

     2     2
    • You can access individual elements of a matrix using parenthesis (first argument specifies the row and the second specifies the column):
>> x(2,1)

ans =

     3

Plotting

The basic command is plot(x), to plot the contents of x (if x is a matrix, then each column is plotted as a different line):

fs = 441000;
t = 0:1/fs:0.01;
plot(sin(2*pi*220*t));

You can also use plot(x,y):

plot(t, sin(2*pi*220*t));

By default plot will erase the previous plot before drawing the new one. Use hold to prevent this from happening. Also, you can use a third argument to specify the line color (and other plotting options):

hold on;
plot(t, sin(2*pi*110*t), 'r');
plot(t, sin(2*pi*330*t), 'g');
plot(t, sin(2*pi*440*t), 'k');
hold off

Sound

General tips

  1. Try to vectorize every operation if you can