Re: how to check if this exists

[Quentin Spencer]

Corbin Champion wrote:

> If I create a variable x and x has an element
> x.name = "tom"
> if I do exist('x') I get a value of 1....good, but
> if I do exist('x.name') I get a value of 0 even though this exists.
> Is this the intended behavior? Is there a different function I should 
> use for this?

Yes and yes. See the example below:

octave:1> x.x=1;
octave:2> isfield(x,'x')
ans = 1
octave:3> isfield(x,'y')
ans = 0

-Quentin



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