Defining anonymous function using an "if" statement
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I'm trying to define an anonymous function using an "if" statement. Here is a minimum "not working" example (my code is more convoluted, but this illustrates the issue):
clc;
clear all;
f=@(x)x^2;
g=@(x) x;
if f(x)>=g(x)
h=@(x) f(x)
else h=@(x) g(x)
end
The point is that I don't want to create an m file and have to recompute both f and g in it (my actual problem would require recomputing many more). So the question is:
1-) Is it possible to create an anonymous function using "if" statements (fixing the code above)?
2-) Is it possible to define function h on a separate m file, without having to recompute f and g inside of it?
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Roger Stafford
2015-1-5
Try this:
f = @(x) (x.^2>=x).*x.^2+(x.^2<x).*x
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John
2015-1-6
Star Strider
2015-1-6
That approach can easily be applied to multivariate functions. See: How do i plot CDF (probability) in Matlab? for an illustration.
This is a classic technique and Star Strider is right. More generally, you would do
h = @(x) L(x).*f(x) + (~L(x)).*g(x)
where L(x) is a possibly multivariate indicator function of x (i.e. =1 when f is active and =0 if g is active).
The only thing I'd point out is that it requires L(x) to be computed twice. It also requires that both f and g be computed even though you really only want to compute the one that is active. With a dedicated mfile you can often avoid that.
So, for large calculations, it has its drawbacks in CPU efficiency, but advantages in syntax efficiency.
John
2015-1-6
Alec Jacobson
2016-12-16
This style/hack has two (more) "gotchas".
1) Suppose L(x) is true, but g(x) produces nan/inf. Then h(x) = nan rather than f(x).
2) Suppose L(x) is true and g(x) is very expressive to compute or has side-effects (admittedly rare for matlab code), g(x) will still be called. This is very different behavior from:
if L(x)
return f(x)
else
return g(x)
I really wish matlab had full-citizen anonymous functions...
Cristobal Montecino
2019-6-26
编辑：Cristobal Montecino
2019-6-26
I use:
call = @(fun) fun();
cellget = @(cell, index) cell{index};
iff = @(test, truefn, falsefn) call(cellget({falsefn, truefn}, test + 1));
And:
arrayget = @(arr, index) arr(index);
ifv = @(test, trueval, falseval) arrayget([falseval, trueval], test + 1);
%or
cellget = @(cell, index) cell{index};
ifv = @(test, trueval, falseval) cellget({falseval, trueval}, test + 1);
Examples:
iff(true, @() 2, @() this_throw_an_error)
% out: 2
iff(false, @() 2, @() this_throw_an_error)
% out: Undefined function or variable 'this_throw_an_error'.
ifv(true, 2, 3)
% out: 2
ifv(true, 2, this_throw_an_error)
% out: Undefined function or variable 'this_throw_an_error'.
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Oscar Raya i Casanova
2020-1-29
Nice tip. As improvement for the first option:
call = @(fun,par) fun(par{:});
cellget = @(cell, index) cell{index};
iff = @(test, truefn, falsefn, truePar, falsePar) call( ...
cellget({falsefn, truefn}, test + 1), ... % functions
cellget({falsePar, truePar}, test + 1) ... % params
);
Examples:
f1 = @(a,b) a + b;
f2 = @(a,b,c) a*b + c;
f3 = @() 7;
iff(true,f1,f2,{1,2},{1,2,3});
% out: 3
iff(false,f1,f2,{1,2},{1,2,3});
% out: 5
iff(false,f1,f3,{1,2},{});
% out: 7
This way you can use functions with different number of parameters.
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