MATLAB Function Reference

The MATLAB Function Reference contains descriptions of all MATLAB commands and functions.If you know the name of a function, use the “Alphabetical List of Functions” to find the reference page. If you do not know the name of a function, select a category from the following table to see a list of related functions. You can also browse these tables to see what functionality MATLAB provides.

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Table of contents :
Functions By Category……Page 5
Command Window……Page 7
File……Page 8
Editing and Debugging……Page 9
Performance Improvement Tools and Techniques……Page 10
Mathematics……Page 11
Operators……Page 12
Operations and Manipulation……Page 13
Linear Algebra……Page 14
Eigenvalues and Singular Values……Page 15
Trigonometric……Page 16
Rounding and Remainder……Page 17
Finite Differences……Page 18
Polynomials……Page 19
Delaunay Triangulation and Tessellation……Page 20
Ordinary Differential Equations (IVP)……Page 21
Specialized Math……Page 22
Full to Sparse Conversion……Page 23
Linear Equations (Iterative Methods)……Page 24
Math Constants……Page 25
Numeric……Page 26
Characters and Strings……Page 27
Data Type Conversion……Page 28
Basic Array Information……Page 30
Operators and Operations……Page 31
Bit-wise Operations……Page 32
Date and Time Operations……Page 33
Evaluation of Expressions and Functions……Page 34
Function Handles……Page 35
Object-Oriented Programming……Page 36
MEX Programming……Page 37
Opening, Loading, Saving Files……Page 38
Lotus123 Functions……Page 39
SPARCstation-Specific Sound Functions……Page 40
Images……Page 41
Annotating Plots……Page 42
Direction and Velocity Plots……Page 43
Polygons and Surfaces……Page 44
Finding and Identifying Graphics Objects……Page 45
Axes Operations……Page 46
Creating Surfaces and Meshes……Page 47
View Control……Page 48
Lighting……Page 49
Volume Visualization……Page 50
Predefined Dialog Boxes……Page 51
GUI Utility Functions……Page 52
Controlling Program Execution……Page 53
Alphabetical List of Functions……Page 55
Arithmetic Operators + – * / ^ ‘……Page 64
Relational Operators === ~=……Page 72
Logical Operators & | ~……Page 74
Special Characters [ ] ( ) {} = ‘ . … , ; % !……Page 76
Colon :……Page 79
abs……Page 81
acos, acosh……Page 82
acot, acoth……Page 84
acsc, acsch……Page 86
actxcontrol……Page 88
actxserver……Page 91
addframe……Page 92
addpath……Page 94
airy……Page 96
alim……Page 98
all……Page 99
allchild……Page 101
alpha……Page 102
alphamap……Page 105
angle……Page 107
ans……Page 108
any……Page 109
area……Page 111
asec, asech……Page 113
asin, asinh……Page 115
assignin……Page 117
atan, atanh……Page 119
atan2……Page 121
audioplayer……Page 123
audiorecorder……Page 126
auread……Page 130
auwrite……Page 131
avifile……Page 132
aviinfo……Page 135
aviread……Page 137
axes……Page 138
Axes Properties……Page 150
axis……Page 171
balance……Page 177
bar, barh……Page 180
bar3, bar3h……Page 184
base2dec……Page 188
beep……Page 189
besselh……Page 190
besseli, besselk……Page 192
besselj, bessely……Page 195
beta, betainc, betaln……Page 198
bicg……Page 200
bicgstab……Page 208
bin2dec……Page 213
bitand……Page 214
bitcmp……Page 215
bitget……Page 216
bitmax……Page 217
bitor……Page 218
bitset……Page 219
bitshift……Page 220
bitxor……Page 221
blanks……Page 222
blkdiag……Page 223
box……Page 224
break……Page 225
brighten……Page 226
builtin……Page 227
bvp4c……Page 228
bvpget……Page 235
bvpinit……Page 236
bvpset……Page 238
bvpval……Page 240
calendar……Page 241
camdolly……Page 242
camlight……Page 244
camlookat……Page 246
camorbit……Page 248
campan……Page 250
campos……Page 251
camproj……Page 253
camroll……Page 254
camtarget……Page 255
camup……Page 257
camva……Page 259
camzoom……Page 261
capture……Page 262
cart2pol……Page 263
cart2sph……Page 264
case……Page 265
cat……Page 266
catch……Page 267
caxis……Page 268
cd……Page 272
cdf2rdf……Page 273
cdfinfo……Page 275
cdfread……Page 278
ceil……Page 280
cell……Page 281
cell2struct……Page 283
celldisp……Page 284
cellfun……Page 285
cellplot……Page 287
cellstr……Page 288
cgs……Page 289
char……Page 293
checkin……Page 295
checkout……Page 297
chol……Page 300
cholinc……Page 302
cholupdate……Page 309
cla……Page 312
clabel……Page 313
class……Page 315
clc……Page 317
clear……Page 318
clear (serial)……Page 322
clf……Page 323
clipboard……Page 324
clock……Page 325
close……Page 326
close (avifile)……Page 328
closereq……Page 329
cmopts……Page 330
colamd……Page 331
colmmd……Page 333
colorbar……Page 336
colordef……Page 338
colormap……Page 339
ColorSpec……Page 343
colperm……Page 345
comet……Page 346
comet3……Page 347
compan……Page 348
compass……Page 349
complex……Page 351
computer……Page 353
cond……Page 355
condeig……Page 356
condest……Page 357
coneplot……Page 358
conj……Page 363
continue……Page 364
contour……Page 365
contour3……Page 369
contourc……Page 371
contourf……Page 373
contourslice……Page 375
contrast……Page 378
conv……Page 379
conv2……Page 380
convhull……Page 385
convhulln……Page 387
convn……Page 389
copyfile……Page 390
copyobj……Page 391
corrcoef……Page 393
cos, cosh……Page 394
cot, coth……Page 396
cov……Page 398
cplxpair……Page 399
cputime……Page 400
cross……Page 401
csc, csch……Page 402
csvread……Page 404
csvwrite……Page 406
cumprod……Page 407
cumsum……Page 408
cumtrapz……Page 409
curl……Page 411
customverctrl……Page 414
cylinder……Page 415
daspect……Page 418
date……Page 421
datenum……Page 422
datestr……Page 424
datetick……Page 427
datevec……Page 430
dbclear……Page 432
dbcont……Page 434
dbdown……Page 435
dblquad……Page 436
dbmex……Page 438
dbquit……Page 439
dbstack……Page 440
dbstatus……Page 441
dbstep……Page 442
dbstop……Page 443
dbtype……Page 447
dbup……Page 448
ddeadv……Page 449
ddeexec……Page 451
ddeinit……Page 452
ddepoke……Page 453
ddereq……Page 455
ddeterm……Page 457
ddeunadv……Page 458
deal……Page 459
deblank……Page 461
dec2base……Page 462
dec2bin……Page 463
dec2hex……Page 464
deconv……Page 465
default4……Page 466
del2……Page 467
delaunay……Page 470
delaunay3……Page 475
delaunayn……Page 478
delete……Page 481
delete (activex)……Page 482
delete (serial)……Page 483
depdir……Page 484
depfun……Page 485
det……Page 489
detrend……Page 490
deval……Page 492
diag……Page 493
dialog……Page 495
diary……Page 496
diff……Page 497
dir……Page 499
disp……Page 501
disp (serial)……Page 502
display……Page 503
divergence……Page 505
dlmread……Page 507
dlmwrite……Page 508
dmperm……Page 509
doc……Page 510
docopt……Page 511
dos……Page 512
dot……Page 514
double……Page 515
dragrect……Page 516
drawnow……Page 517
dsearch……Page 518
dsearchn……Page 519
echo……Page 520
edit……Page 521
eig……Page 523
eigs……Page 527
ellipj……Page 535
ellipke……Page 537
ellipsoid……Page 539
else……Page 540
elseif……Page 541
end……Page 543
eomday……Page 545
eps……Page 546
erf, erfc, erfcx, erfinv, erfcinv……Page 547
error……Page 549
errorbar……Page 550
errordlg……Page 552
etime……Page 554
etree……Page 555
etreeplot……Page 556
eval……Page 557
evalc……Page 559
evalin……Page 560
exist……Page 562
exit……Page 565
exp……Page 566
expint……Page 567
expm……Page 568
eye……Page 570
ezcontour……Page 571
ezcontourf……Page 574
ezmesh……Page 577
ezmeshc……Page 579
ezplot……Page 581
ezplot3……Page 583
ezpolar……Page 585
ezsurf……Page 586
ezsurfc……Page 589
Index……Page 593