how to intialize a variable only once?the below written code should execute only once.later the value must b retained. how it is done

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rashmi am 2015-2-28

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评论： rashmi am 2015-3-3

example

    persistent a
    if isempty (a)
    a=0;
    end

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Stephen23 2015-3-1

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That should work.

What is the problem? Is this code is placed at the beginning of a function (and not a script )? Did you try it? What happens that you don't expect?

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/6200-tutorial-how-to-ask-a-question-on-answers-and-get-a-fast-answer

If you want to share this variable between functions, then you should pass it as an input/output variable (and avoid using globals).

rashmi am 2015-3-1

yes,it is working.but what i needed is once i close the m-file containing this variable and then run it again, 'a' shouldn't be set to 0 .i want previously computed values as such for further computation.

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You say "the value assigned to 'a' in the previous computation should be retained, after I close the m-file and run it next time." So, save it to a .mat file on disk with save() then. Recall it with load() the next time you run the program.

persistent a
if isempty (a)
   a=0;
   if exist('a.mat', 'file')
       % Recall a from mat file
       s = load('a.mat');
       a = s.a;
   end
end
% more code....
% Then just before you exit this routine, save it out to the disk file
% for recall by later runs of this program.
save('a.mat', a);

Of course since you're saving it and recalling it across different runs, it no longer needs to be persistent. You could just do load() and save() and not have it be persistent.

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rashmi am 2015-3-3

this is what exactly i was searching for :) thanks a lot.

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Walter Roberson 2015-3-1

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That code looks fine in itself. See here for the examples in the documentation for persistent. persistent variables, like global variables, are initialized to [], so testing them for that value, just as you did, is correct for determining whether they have been initialized.

Note that persistent variables are only visible inside the routine they are declared in, so they are not the correct choice for creating a shared variable.