I'm pleased to introduce Tim Davis as this week's guest blogger. Tim is a professor at the University of Florida, and is the
author or co-author of many of our sparse matrix functions (lu, chol,... read more >>

A while ago, I wrote an article sharing some ideas for Programming for Multiple Datatypes. Recently, a colleague asked me a related question for writing some M-code to be used in an... read more >>

In the course of many applications, we sometimes need to tally up counts for different purposes, e.g., investigating the distribution of some data or equalizing gray tones in... read more >>

I recently was asked the best way to create function handles, given the names of functions. This came up because I recommended that we should generally remove instances of... read more >>

I just posted a blog on logical operator behavior in MATLAB and I want to be clear about the bottom line. Use the newer MATLAB operators || and &&, in the context of expressions for if and... read more >>

Let me set the stage for today's blog. Logical variables have been part of MATLAB from the early days. They are particularly useful in constructs involved flow-of-control,... read more >>

There are occasional posts on the MATLAB newsgroup, such as this one, where people ask how to control when they see various warnings. One reason people might want this is to control... read more >>

Today I want to talk a bit about the function isfield and some of the history of its implementation. isfield has been built into MATLAB for a few releases now. We felt it was important... read more >>

I'm pleased to introduce Vadim Teverovsky, our guest blogger this week, who gives us his take on MATLAB low level file I/O and how it works with encodings. ... read more >>

Users have occasionally asked how to create and use constants in MATLAB. Here's one such example. In some cases, they would like to create a constant that other users or programs can't... read more >>