{"id":5206,"date":"2021-12-08T12:50:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T17:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/?p=5206"},"modified":"2021-12-08T12:51:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T17:51:06","slug":"upgrading-one-of-functions-to-use-an-arguments-block-and-string-arrays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2021\/12\/08\/upgrading-one-of-functions-to-use-an-arguments-block-and-string-arrays\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrading One of My Functions to Use an arguments Block and String Arrays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve upgraded a function that I often use with some features introduced in recent releases of MATLAB. This includes an arguments block, and using strings instead of cell arrays of character arrays. Here I will compare the code of before and after.<\/p>\n<p>Features covered in this <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2015\/10\/29\/matlab-code-along-videos\/\">code-along<\/a> style video include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/help\/matlab\/ref\/arguments.html\">Arguments block<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/help\/matlab\/matlab_prog\/create-string-arrays.html\">string arrays<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-xs-12 containing-block\"><div class=\"bc-outer-container add_margin_20\"><videoplayer><div class=\"video-js-container\"><video data-video-id=\"6285817121001\" data-video-category=\"blog\" data-autostart=\"false\" data-account=\"62009828001\" data-omniture-account=\"mathwgbl\" data-player=\"rJ9XCz2Sx\" data-embed=\"default\" id=\"mathworks-brightcove-player\" class=\"video-js\" controls><\/video><script src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/62009828001\/rJ9XCz2Sx_default\/index.min.js\"><\/script><script>if (typeof(playerLoaded) === 'undefined') {var playerLoaded = false;}(function isVideojsDefined() {if (typeof(videojs) !== 'undefined') {videojs(\"mathworks-brightcove-player\").on('loadedmetadata', function() {playerLoaded = true;});} else {setTimeout(isVideojsDefined, 10);}})();<\/script><\/div><\/videoplayer><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Play the video in full screen mode for a better viewing experience.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"thumbnail thumbnail_asset asset_overlay video\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2021\/12\/08\/upgrading-one-of-functions-to-use-an-arguments-block-and-string-arrays\/?dir=autoplay\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net\/v1\/static\/62009828001\/6518382f-8906-4776-aaf9-a878678a6883\/bab58984-5c6f-426b-8d8f-42f8878440d2\/1280x720\/match\/image.jpg\" onError=\"this.style.display ='none';\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"overlay_container\">\n      <span class=\"icon-video icon_color_null\"><time class=\"video_length\">10:13<\/time><\/span>\n      <\/div>\n<p>      <\/a><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve upgraded a function that I often use with some features introduced in recent releases of MATLAB. This includes an arguments block, and using strings instead of cell arrays of character&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2021\/12\/08\/upgrading-one-of-functions-to-use-an-arguments-block-and-string-arrays\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":5215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5206"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5227,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5206\/revisions\/5227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}