do nothing command in matlab

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joe khese 2014-2-22

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评论： Ron Fredericks 2023-3-23

is there a do nothing command in matlab like the ';' in c and c++. i am trying to write a command that does nothing for a particular condition for example

if (condition)= true; do something; else do nothing; ( in c this would just be ';') end

Pls how can I do this in MATLAB??

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per isakson 2014-4-29

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My "do nothing" function/method reads

    function appropriate_name( varargin )
    end

Patrik Ek 2014-5-7

That is fair enough, but as seen in the answer there is a much simpler way not requiring a function call. Still if you want to use it, I guess the little overhead it creates disappears in the rest.

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Ernst Kloppenburg 2017-7-20

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matlab will accept an empty if body or else body, at least as of R2015b:

if condition
   do something
else
   % do nothing
end

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Ron Fredericks 2023-3-23

The problem with using a "comment for do nothing" is that you can't set a break point on it during debug session.

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the cyclist 2014-2-22

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This code will work:

if false
    disp('false')
else
    ;
end

But why would this ever be better than simply having no line at all?

if false
    disp('false')
end

Just curious about your use case.

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Patrik Ek 2014-4-28

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Fyi, I have a case, where you will save yourself some annoying code by do nothing.

if exist('myvar','var')
    ;
elseif myFirstStatement
    myvar = firstThing;
elseif mySecondStatment
    myvar = secondThing;
...
else
    myvar = defaultValue;
end

This code will set a value to a few default values if the value is not already set, but the default value may be dependent on some other parameters; Which means that you need to set another default parameter if no of the custom default parameters apply. It is of course possible to achieve the same thing with an extra else statement (or switch), which would then not require an if exist('myvar','var') in every elseif, by why not have a "do nothing" instead. It is no doubt more effective since you only need 1 if statement, it gives readable code since the " elseif s" are not really a sub-statement to ~exist('myvar','var') and third, my if statement is already inside a switch statement. I do not need a level more.

So to sum up, I do not thing that a "do nothing" is essential, but there is certainly nice to have sometimes, and then you are really glad that you have it. It would of course be possible to do myvar = myvar instead, but how does that look, really? However +1 for a useful answer.

Patrik Ek 2014-4-29

Well I guess it is a matter about taste. As the initial if was inside a switch statement, this may have motivated me to not use too many levels of if and switch. Also by adding an extra if there, it seems like a catch for not getting an error. This may not always be the case since not setting 'myvar' is as valid as the others. However, the calculation time is nothing to talk about (not even sure if there will ever be a difference) and the extra if is even the same number of lines, so I guess that I was overly happy about the do nothing statement.

Ron Fredericks 2022-1-30

We can't set a breakpoint on a comment. So having a line of code like "noop" can be useful for debugging.

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Yuxiao Zhai 2022-10-26

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You could create an anonymous function that takes arbitrary input arguments and outputs an empty array. Then executing this anonymous function is simply equivalent to doing nothing.

h = @(varargin)[];
% At the line where you want to do nothing=============
h();
% =====================================================

You could also feed h with any types of input arguments and it would still do nothing, like

h(1,2,3);
h('Hello world');
h(struct, table, cell(1), datetime);

Good luck

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Ron Fredericks 2022-1-30

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I prefer this line of code as equivalent to "noop" or "do nothing"

disp('') % Does nothing but allows developer to set a breakpoint here.

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