MATLAB Function Reference Volume 1: A - E - Bad Request

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Purpose Terminate for, while, switch, try, and if statements or indicate last index
Syntax while expression% (or if, for, or try)
statements
end
B = A(index:end,index)
Description end is used to terminate for, while, switch, try, and if statements. Without
an end statement, for, while, switch, try, and if wait for further input. Each
end is paired with the closest previous unpaired for, while, switch, try,orif
and serves to delimit its scope.
The end command also serves as the last index in an indexing expression. In
that context, end = (size(x,k)) when used as part of the kth index. Examples
of this use are X(3:end) and X(1,1:2:end-1). When using end to grow an
array, as in X(end+1)=5, make sure X exists first.
You can overload the end statement for a user object by defining an end method
for the object. The end method should have the calling sequence end(obj,k,n),
where obj is the user object, k is the index in the expression where the end
syntax is used, and n is the total number of indices in the expression. For
example, consider the expression
A(end-1,:)
MATLAB will call the end method defined for A using the syntax
end(A,1,2)
Examples This example shows end used with the for and if statements.
for k = 1:n
if a(k) == 0
a(k) = a(k) + 2;
end
end
In this example, end is used in an indexing expression.
A = magic(5)
end
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