From help-request at octave dot org Wed Dec 22 15:58:41 2004
Subject: Re: Variable num args. question
From: Geraint Paul Bevan <g dot bevan at mech dot gla dot ac dot uk>
To: D Goel <deego at gnufans dot org>
CC: help at octave dot org
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 22:09:22 +0000

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D Goel wrote:
| hi,
|
| Inside function f1, how do i make a call to f2 with all the arguments
| that f1 was given?  with the num. of arguments being variable?
|
| The lisp equivalent being:
|
| (defun f1 (&rest args)
| 	(some work ...)
|         (apply 'f2 args))
|


You can use the varargin variable to capture variable numbers of arguments:


function y = f1( varargin )
~  f2( varargin{:} )
endfunction


function y = f2( arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4 )
~  switch nargin
~    case 4
~      arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4
~    case 3
~      arg1, arg2, arg3
~    case 2
~      arg1, arg2
~    case 1
~      arg1
~  endswitch
~  y = nargin
endfunction


octave> f1( 2, 5, 7 )
arg1 = 2
arg2 = 5
arg3 = 7
y = 3
ans = 3


If you don't want to capture all of the arguments, you can name some of
them before using varagin:


function y = f1( arg1, varargin )
~  f2( varargin{:} )
endfunction


octave> f1( 2, 5, 7 )
arg1 = 5
arg2 = 7
y = 2
ans = 2



- --
Geraint Bevan
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/geraint.bevan

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