From help-request at octave dot org Tue May  3 08:46:30 2005
Subject: Re: calling a function within a multi-function file
From: Shai Ayal <shaia at biocontrol dot co dot il>
To: Brian Blais <bblais at bryant dot edu>
Cc: help at octave dot org
Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 16:50:43 +0300

There is a trick you can try:

The problem is that octave has no way to know that test2 is in test.m what 
you can do is convert rename test.m to say test_funcs.m , convert it to a 
script file by adding the statement 1; at the top, call test_funcs and you 
will now have access to both test and test2 functions. caveat: if you 
change the m-file, you'll have to reload it automatically for the functions 
to change. For sake of clarity, this is the test_funcs.m file I propose:

#--- test_func.m ---------------
1;
function y=test(x)
   y=x;
endfunction

function y=test2(x)
   y=2*x;
endfunction
#------------------------------

hope this helps,
Shai

Brian Blais wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> If I have the following function file test.m
> 
> function y=test(x)
>   y=x;
> endfunction
> 
> function y=test2(x)
>   y=2*x;
> endfunction
> %------------------------------
> 
> 
> Is there a way to call function test2 directly, even though it is in
> test.m?  I could use the source command, but then I have to do that
> manually every time I change the file.  Is there another way?
> 
> 
>             thanks,
> 
>                 Brian Blais



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