Since MATLAB Release R2007a, you've been able to number the arguments for functions that format strings. With this feature,
you can refer to the values that correspond to the different arguments in... read more >>

We can sometimes be motivated to reverse things in Boston. And I occasionally get asked how to reverse the sort direction from MATLAB. So instead of sorting A and then having B follow... read more >>

Recently a colleague was hoping to write some code to iterate over fields in a structure. There are at least three different ways I can think of, some more straight-forward... read more >>

Users sometimes want to monitor the progress of some calculation or simulation. Here's a recent example from the MATLAB newsgroup. Contents ... read more >>

I have had customers ask me occasionally about what happens during an indexed assignment when indices are repeated. The answer is that it depends on how you do the... read more >>

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 >>

There are some cases, particularly simulations, in which we need to choose a few items from a finite list. A friend mentioned to me that he was doing a Monte Carlo... read more >>

Did you know that you can customize the direction of text in MATLAB plots? There are times when such annotations work better than if they were purely horizontal or... read more >>

I just had an interesting exchange with a customer. He was trying to have an anonymous function return multiple outputs. Contents ... read more >>

We use color as a dimension to understand the world. For some datasets, judicious choice of colormaps provides a useful means for gleaning information. ... read more >>