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1.5. GETTING ONLINE HELP 3<br />

Example 4:<br />

> s = "Hello, My name is Tianlin Wang"<br />

Hello, My name is Tianlin Wang<br />

It simply creates a string object named s.<br />

1.5 Getting Online Help<br />

<strong>Matvec</strong> provides the online help. There are several versions (different formats) of the same help resources:<br />

dvi, ps, html, and manpage. Type in the question mark ? at the prompt, wait for a second, then a list of<br />

topics about <strong>Matvec</strong> functions and statements wiil be displayed on your screen. Type ? followed by a topic<br />

name (say sin) will display details of the topic you chose. For example,<br />

> ?max<br />

Builtin Friend and Member Function: max<br />

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Syntax<br />

max(A)<br />

max(A,B)<br />

A.max()<br />

A.max(B)<br />

Description<br />

- If A is a scalar, A.max() returns itself.<br />

- If A is a vector, A.max() returns an element with the<br />

largest value.<br />

- If A is a matrix, A.max() returns a vector whose each<br />

element is the largest element of each column of A.<br />

If A is a one-row or one-column matrix, then the returned<br />

value would be a scalar.<br />

- If both A and B are scalars A.max(B) returns the largest<br />

one between A and B.<br />

- If both A and B are vectors (one of them could be a<br />

scalar), then A.max(B) returns a vector of the same<br />

size as A or B with resulting element(i) being the<br />

largest element among A(i) and B(i).<br />

- If both A and B are matrices (one of then could be a<br />

scalar), then A.max(B) returns a matrix of the same<br />

size as A or B with resulting element(i,j) being the<br />

largest element among A(i,j) and B(i,j).<br />

- max(A) is the same as A.max().<br />

- max(A,B) is the same as A.max(B).<br />

See Also<br />

min, sum, sumsq, mean, variance, Scalar, Vector, Matrix.<br />

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