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
pack……Page 65
pagedlg……Page 67
pagesetupdlg……Page 68
pareto……Page 69
partialpath……Page 70
pascal……Page 71
patch……Page 72
Patch Properties……Page 84
path……Page 102
pathtool……Page 104
pause……Page 105
pbaspect……Page 106
pcg……Page 111
pchip……Page 115
pcode……Page 117
pcolor……Page 118
pdepe……Page 121
pdeval……Page 132
peaks……Page 133
perms……Page 134
permute……Page 135
persistent……Page 136
pi……Page 137
pie……Page 138
pie3……Page 140
pinv……Page 142
planerot……Page 145
plot……Page 146
plot3……Page 151
plotedit……Page 153
plotmatrix……Page 156
plotyy……Page 158
pol2cart……Page 160
polar……Page 161
poly……Page 163
polyarea……Page 165
polyder……Page 166
polyeig……Page 167
polyfit……Page 169
polyint……Page 172
polyval……Page 173
polyvalm……Page 175
pow2……Page 177
ppval……Page 178
primes……Page 179
print, printopt……Page 180
printdlg……Page 194
printpreview……Page 195
prod……Page 196
profile……Page 197
profreport……Page 200
propedit……Page 202
propedit (activex)……Page 203
pwd……Page 204
qmr……Page 205
qr……Page 209
qrdelete……Page 213
qrinsert……Page 214
qrupdate……Page 215
quad, quad8……Page 218
quadl……Page 221
questdlg……Page 223
quit……Page 225
quiver……Page 227
quiver3……Page 229
qz……Page 231
rand……Page 233
randn……Page 235
randperm……Page 237
rank……Page 238
rat, rats……Page 239
rbbox……Page 242
rcond……Page 244
readasync……Page 245
real……Page 247
realmax……Page 248
realmin……Page 249
record……Page 250
rectangle……Page 252
rectangle properties……Page 259
rectint……Page 266
reducepatch……Page 267
reducevolume……Page 271
refresh……Page 273
rehash……Page 274
release (activex)……Page 275
rem……Page 276
repmat……Page 277
reset……Page 278
reshape……Page 279
residue……Page 281
return……Page 284
rgb2hsv……Page 285
rgbplot……Page 286
ribbon……Page 287
rmappdata……Page 289
rmfield……Page 290
rmpath……Page 291
root object……Page 292
Root Properties……Page 295
roots……Page 301
rose……Page 302
rosser……Page 304
rot90……Page 305
rotate……Page 306
rotate3d……Page 308
round……Page 309
rref……Page 310
rsf2csf……Page 312
run……Page 314
runtime……Page 315
save……Page 316
save (activex)……Page 319
save (serial)……Page 320
saveas……Page 322
saveobj……Page 325
scatter……Page 326
scatter3……Page 328
schur……Page 330
script……Page 332
sec, sech……Page 333
selectmoveresize……Page 335
semilogx, semilogy……Page 336
send (activex)……Page 338
serial……Page 339
serialbreak……Page 341
set……Page 342
set (activex)……Page 345
set (serial)……Page 346
setappdata……Page 348
setdiff……Page 349
setfield……Page 350
setstr……Page 352
setxor……Page 353
shading……Page 354
shiftdim……Page 357
shrinkfaces……Page 358
sign……Page 362
sin, sinh……Page 363
single……Page 365
size……Page 366
size (serial)……Page 368
slice……Page 369
smooth3……Page 374
sort……Page 375
sortrows……Page 377
sound……Page 378
soundsc……Page 379
spalloc……Page 380
sparse……Page 381
spaugment……Page 383
spconvert……Page 384
spdiags……Page 386
speye……Page 389
spfun……Page 390
sph2cart……Page 392
sphere……Page 393
spinmap……Page 395
spline……Page 396
spones……Page 400
spparms……Page 401
sprand……Page 404
sprandn……Page 405
sprandsym……Page 406
sprank……Page 407
sprintf……Page 408
spy……Page 414
sqrt……Page 416
sqrtm……Page 417
squeeze……Page 420
sscanf……Page 421
stairs……Page 424
startup……Page 426
std……Page 427
stem……Page 429
stem3……Page 431
stopasync……Page 433
str2double……Page 434
str2func……Page 435
str2mat……Page 436
str2num……Page 437
strcat……Page 438
strcmp……Page 440
strcmpi……Page 442
stream2……Page 443
stream3……Page 445
streamline……Page 447
streamparticles……Page 449
streamribbon……Page 453
streamslice……Page 459
streamtube……Page 464
strfind……Page 468
strings……Page 469
strjust……Page 471
strmatch……Page 472
strncmp……Page 473
strncmpi……Page 474
strread……Page 475
strrep……Page 479
strtok……Page 480
struct……Page 481
struct2cell……Page 483
strvcat……Page 484
sub2ind……Page 485
subplot……Page 487
subsasgn……Page 491
subsindex……Page 492
subspace……Page 493
subsref……Page 494
substruct……Page 495
subvolume……Page 496
sum……Page 498
superiorto……Page 499
support……Page 500
surf, surfc……Page 501
surf2patch……Page 505
surface……Page 507
Surface Properties……Page 515
surfl……Page 529
surfnorm……Page 532
svd……Page 534
svds……Page 537
switch……Page 539
symamd……Page 541
symbfact……Page 543
symmlq……Page 544
symmmd……Page 548
symrcm……Page 550
symvar……Page 552
tan, tanh……Page 553
tempdir……Page 555
tempname……Page 556
terminal……Page 557
tetramesh……Page 559
texlabel……Page 562
text……Page 564
Text Properties……Page 571
textread……Page 583
textwrap……Page 588
tic, toc……Page 589
title……Page 590
toeplitz……Page 592
trace……Page 593
trapz……Page 594
treelayout……Page 596
treeplot……Page 597
tril……Page 598
trimesh……Page 599
triplot……Page 600
trisurf……Page 602
triu……Page 603
try……Page 604
tsearch……Page 605
tsearchn……Page 606
type……Page 607
uicontextmenu……Page 608
uicontextmenu Properties……Page 611
uicontrol……Page 616
Uicontrol Properties……Page 624
uigetfile……Page 638
uiimport……Page 644
uimenu……Page 645
Uimenu Properties……Page 649
uint8, uint16, uint32……Page 656
uiputfile……Page 657
uiresume, uiwait……Page 659
uisetcolor……Page 660
uisetfont……Page 661
undocheckout……Page 663
union……Page 664
unique……Page 665
unix……Page 667
unmkpp……Page 668
unwrap……Page 669
upper……Page 670
usejava……Page 671
vander……Page 672
var……Page 673
varargin, varargout……Page 674
vectorize……Page 676
ver……Page 677
version……Page 679
vertcat……Page 680
view……Page 682
viewmtx……Page 685
volumebounds……Page 689
voronoi……Page 691
voronoin……Page 695
waitbar……Page 698
waitfor……Page 700
waitforbuttonpress……Page 701
warndlg……Page 702
warning……Page 703
waterfall……Page 704
wavplay……Page 706
wavread……Page 708
wavrecord……Page 709
wavwrite……Page 710
web……Page 711
weekday……Page 713
what……Page 714
whatsnew……Page 716
which……Page 717
while……Page 721
whitebg……Page 724
who, whos……Page 725
wilkinson……Page 727
wk1read……Page 728
wk1write……Page 729
workspace……Page 730
xlabel, ylabel, zlabel……Page 731
xlim, ylim, zlim……Page 732
xlsfinfo……Page 734
xlsread……Page 735
xor……Page 739
zeros……Page 740
zoom……Page 741
Index……Page 743