How do I force MATLAB treat my variable 'range' as a variable instead of a function ?

I am doing a project for my sponsor. In the data he gives me, there is a matrix called 'range'. When I use this variable 'range' in my own function, MATLAB always treats it as its build-in function and gives me error. Since I cannot ask my sponsor to change the name of the variable, is there a way to force MATLAB treat 'range' as a variable ?

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I call load() first, that's where problem comes from
  1. Never simply load into the workspace and make variables magically appear in the workspace. Always load into an output argument (which is a structure): S = load(...);
  2. Do not use the variable name range. Always use which to check if a name is already in use.
Note that if you had load-ed into a structure then this issue would never have occurred!

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I suspect you're loading the variable into the workspace via load or eval, right? That's known as "poofing" a variable into the workspace. To avoid this:
  1. Whenever I call load inside a function, I almost always call it with an output argument. This will make the output argument become a struct array with one field per variable in the MAT-file, which I can index using normal dot notation.
  2. If you cannot call load with an output, make sure in your code (prior to calling load) that you assign a value to the variable. That will tell the MATLAB parser that the identifier must be a variable, not a function, in your code and it will treat it as such.

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You are right. I call load() in my function. Sorry I did not mention it in the description. Let me try your method.

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Simply create a copy of the variable assigning a different name?

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As long as I use 'range' in my function, MATLAB will think I am calling its built-in function range()
I still don't understand the problem, as long as the 'range' variable is correctly indicized in the function. The following MWE works for me:
function [ range ] = test( range )
range = 2*range;
end
if I call
range = [1 2;3 4];
range = test(range)
from the workspace the result is
range =
2 4
6 8
Sorry I did not make myself clear. I load a .mat which contains 'range' in my function, so it is a different situation.

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