Chapter 5. Extensions: Write Your Own Octave Functions
In this chapter, you will learn how to write your own Octave functions. This will not only enable you to utilize more of Octave's built-in functionality, it also makes it possible to extend Octave to do pretty much anything you want it to in a highly reusable and modular manner.
After reading this chapter, you will be able to:
- Write your own Octave functions.
- Check and validate user inputs to the functions.
- Write function help text.
- Define mathematical functions that can be used by Octave to solve different numerical problems.
- Perform simple debugging of your functions.
- Vectorize your code.
Your first Octave function
In general, the syntax for a function is:
function [output1, output2, ...] = functionname(input1,input2,...) ...
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