How to get the "zero/blank" element of a given variable?

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royk 2019-8-29

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I have an array VAR of unknown type. When the array is extended, Matlab knowns how to fill in blank ("zero") values of the correct type. How do I get this default blank value for any given Var type?

One solution is simply to extend an array and see what value gets padded:

BLANK(2) = VAR(1) ; BLANK(2) = [] ;

This returns a scalar BLANK with the correct "0" value and works for any VAR type.

BUT: It doesn't work with empty VAR.

Any thoughts of a general way to get the Blank value for any given array even if empty?

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Rik 2019-8-29

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You can abuse repmat for this:

a=uint8(8);
repmat(a,0,0)
b='foo_bar';
repmat(b,0,0)

Edit:

On second read, you might actually mean this instead:

a=uint8(8);b='foo_bar';c={'1',2};
get_blank_val=@(x) eval([class(x) '(0)']);
get_blank_val(a)
get_blank_val(b)
get_blank_val(c)

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Rik 2019-8-29

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You could put in a special condition for a struct, but then you can't make it an anonymous function anymore.

function blank=get_blank_val(x)
if ~isa(x,'struct')
    blank=eval([class(x) '(0)']);
else
    fn=fieldnames(x);
    tmp=[fn repmat({[]},size(fn))]';
    blank=struct(tmp{:});
end
end

royk 2019-8-30

that will do the job

there are still other exceptions. for example, for an array of MyClass objects, Matlab determines Blank for array extension by calling empty(MyClass).

It thereby feels like there got to be a generic Matlab function that returns the Blank object for array extension for ANY type.

Anyway, your kind suggestion above surely does the job for my needs.

thanks!

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