3:04

Each time I install a new release of MATLAB, such as 2016b recently, I turn on the editor preference “Enable data tips in edit mode”. Its not on by default. Here’s why its very… read more >>

70:01

I have a spreadsheet with a list of filenames in one column whose absolute location is defined relative to a file in another column. I want to be able to construct the absolute path for all of them… read more >>

38:35

Its the 15th anniversary of MATLAB Central and it made me think about my contributions to the MATLAB community.
My first interaction was with the MATLAB Newsgroup. I wanted see when my first post was… read more >>

15:31

Today I’m just making a small modification to an existing script to store a variable with the saveValue function I developed a while ago. The variable is of type duration, part of the recently… read more >>

47:21

Sometimes when displaying the progress of a long running script, there is so much output at the command window that there is too much to scroll through or the buffer fills up and you can’t go… read more >>

11:57

Sometimes I need to display the name of a variable as a character array. This can help with the updating of variable names in code and automating the importing or exporting of multiple variables to… read more >>

22:09

This code-along video is the third in a series where I’m creating a MATLAB function to split a URL into component parts. Here I update another script to make use of this new function but it… read more >>

17:50

You may be familiar with using try/catch statements to make your code robust to errors. Matt covered them in a series of posts. A try/catch statement will catch one occurrence of an error in the… read more >>

66:12

This code-along video is the second in a series where I’m creating a MATLAB function to split a URL into component parts. Here I add more tests, return more components, and add a parameter to… read more >>

51:49

I often need to break up a URL string into components such as protocol, hostname, file path, query parameters, etc. Here, I create a function to do this, similar to the fileparts function in… read more >>